Problem with a TOC....

Hi all.
I've got an issue with chapter and heading numbers in a Pages document.... basically, I have a document that has three main sections (1,2 and 3), and in the first two, there are three subheadings (i through iii).
When I insert a TOC, I get this:
1.     Section 1
          i. First subheading.
          ii. Second subheading.
          iii. Third subheading.
4.     Section 2
          v. First subheading.
          vi. Second subheading.
          vii. Third subheading.
8.     Section 3
Not what I wanted. What I was hoping for was:
1.     Section 1
          i. First subheading.
          ii. Second subheading.
          iii. Third subheading.
2.     Section 2
          i. First subheading.
          ii. Second subheading.
          iii. Third subheading.
3.     Section 3
I've played about with the settings in Inspector, regarding 'Start from' and 'Continue Previous' and nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Many thanks in advance
Tim

Thanks Tim got your file.
1. This appears to be converted from a Word file.
2. You have not applied any list styles, you have relied on auto-list working and in this case it clearly isn't
3. Your styles are not updated and appear to all have exceptions
Menu > View > Show Styles Drawer
You will see 3 types of styles: Paragraph, Character and List, to see how they work:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=180&highlight=styles &mforum=iworktipsntrick
First you need to apply and straighten out your lists in the text and then I think everything else will follow.
Peter

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If you have already ported the RH project and it's too late to go back, go look at the file timestamps anyhow. For all the older files, try opening each one in Robohelp and add a space or something (to force RH to change it), and save it. I didn't have the time to verify this, but it seemed on most instances: when I forced RH to save the file manually, it updated correctly and the problem with the conditional text went away. (This option takes longer, especially if you have to do each page individually, but it's worth a try, IMHO.)
Aside from the initial Printed Manual woes, which are resolved, the upgrade process from RH 9 really was seamless! Best I have ever seen! Everything just works! Awesome is a word that comes to mind.
Printed Documentation output does work on upgrade, but in my opinion is: it is no better than it was before, in previous versions.
I wish there were more fixes to the Printed Manual output. When you have a product help system that spans multiple versions, contains over 2.5 million words, and 10,000+ topics, having a lot of cleanup on the production end is costly. What use to take a person on my team less than a day to generate 50+ PDFs in FrameMaker, takes 4-5 weeks man-time in RH. I will outline my opinions in my next reply to this thread.
Thanks again, Mr. Grainge!

Problem with RoboHelp 7 and Batch Generate "Printed Documentation"

Hello people! I have a problem with Batch Generate of Word documenttion in RoboHelp 7, when launch the Batch Generate with "Printed Documention" option selected send me a error message like this "Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Elments version 7 or Higher is not installed on your system".
RoboHelp generate de .chm file without problems.
I have the last version of Adobe Acrobat Reader Installed in my computer, my RoboHelp's project is not very complicated, the only to remarks is in spanish lenguage and the computer is in spanish too, but anothers projects in english US generate documentation without problems, I dont know if this had anything to do..
I have windows XP SP 3,so I test in another computer to generate documentation and I have the same problem. What´s happend ??
Thank you for all.

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