BD> This explains why Laurence's solution of manipulating 
 BD> the paragraph mark works.  Next time this happens, 
 BD> turn on paragraph marks, highlight the paragraph mark 
 BD> and apply the style "default character font".  That 
 BD> will reset the attributes for the number back to the 
 BD> default for your document.
FYI, the shortcut for doing this is Ctrl-Space.  It's the companion to 
Ctrl-Q, "default paragraph formatting."  I use the two commands quite a bit.
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