Word never stores the list numbers you see — a DOCX converter has to run a numbering engine
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A law firm sent me a 60-page contract to convert, and by section 7 every cross-reference was off by one. The text said "as set out in clause 6.3" while the heading it pointed to read "6.4". I assumed a typo in the source document — until the same drift showed up in three other files that week. The…
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Word never stores the list numbers you see — a DOCX converter has to run a numbering engine