Multi Level Numbering Level 1 not working

[MaggieR27]

I have a document that I am trying to put together and it has 7 sections  and 3 forms of headings

Section Heading      1. XXXXX

Sub Heading 1         1.1 XXXX

                                 1.2 XXXX

Sub Heading 2         1.2.1 XXX

                                 1.2.2 XXX

etc etc

However Sub Headings 1 and 2 are working fine, Except that all Section Headings are showing as 2 and doesn't incrementing , so that means the starting numbers for the sub headings are all 2.X.X  rather than updating based on the Section number.

I have tried various combinations and I am failing to get the document to work correctly.  What am I missing?

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[Barb Binder]

First of all, it's a good practice to name your custom numbered lists.

Secondly, are all the section titles in a single document? And you are using ^H? That's an issue because that's the chapter number and all of these are in the same chapter.

So for sequentially numbered section heads, name the list (and use the same name for all three levels), set the section heads to level 1 and use ^1 instead of ^H.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

To add to Barb's post...

Here is my code for a multi-level list:

^#.0^m

^1.^#^m

^1.^2.^#^m

^1.^2.^3.^#^m

The ^m is for an em space. Just use ^t for the tab.