How do I turn off Automatic Heading/Paragraph numbering?

Hi guys,
I am working on a document that has several different headings/paragraphs, each numbered 1,2,3 etc. They seem to have been automatically numbered so that if I delete one sub-paragrph, Pages knows this and re-numbers that section accordingly.
I am trying to edit this document and insert new paragraphs/new sections. That part is easy, but when I try to renumber all the existing paragraphs so the edited document is in order, the automatic numbering just continues (ignoring my newly inserted paragraphs) and I can't even highlight some of the sub-paragraphs to change them. I just delete them by pressing backspace put it won't allow me to insert a corrected number in it's place.
I've tried turning off 'Automatically detect lists' in Preferences, but it makes no difference.
Please help! I just need my headings and sub-headings to be numbered in the order they appear on the page.

In the Inspector palette you have on the T tab > Lists. Here you set which kind of list numbering you want. You also have special list styles in the style drawer. Have you used them?
If you are doing a lot of shuffling of text it might be easier to select all text and apply Body style. Do this on a copy of the document so you have on doc if the disaster strike the one you are working on.
Now do the shuffling of text and when you are done use list styles for those headings and paragraphs you want.
You can download Pages User guide from the Help menu in Pages. Chapter 5 and 6 would be useful to read.

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