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It is amazing that essentially 100% of the responses to this are lawyers saying “because renumbering is hard”. That is both true (Word sucks; human search and replace is very fallible) and an extremely, extremely solved problem here in the year 2026.

As a writer who uses Word to edit construction specifications I can attest that the problem has not been solved. Not only does it not automatically renumber a sequence when a section is cut, if you try to force it to renumber it often misformats large sections of the doc. still sucks 40 years later