I started doing some testing today while viewing my test document both in AbiWord and a text editor. It seems helpful to help me understand what is going on. That and some other things prompt a few questions. - Shouldn't applying Normal to a paragraph revert the style to Normal in all respects? (Start a document, type test, view the XML. Apply Chapter Heading 1 style, view the XML. Apply Normal style, view the XML -- you still see (most of) the attributes for the numbered heading. In addition, if this is this the last item of a numbered list (or last heading in a series of numbered headings) shouldn't the "definition" of the list go away?) (Normal Clean works the same as Normal in these respects.) - In AbiWord there are a few ways that you can get a paragraph labeled as Chapter Heading 1 style without the "Chapter n " prefix. The most obvious is to simply select and delete the "Chapter n " prefix. That doesn't seem appropriate -- if you want to get rid of the "Chapter n" prefix, you should change to a style that does not include that prefix. In Word97 you cannot select the "Chapter n" prefix, and therefore cannot delete it. Aside: in Word you can put the mouse cursor to the left of the heading and click to select the entire heading, in which case only the text of the heading (not the "Chapter n " prefix) is shown as selected. If you do cut and paste at this point, the entire heading is deleted and reinserted where pasted, with the chapter number adjusted appropriately. Randy Kramer
