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\counterwithin*{paragraph}{section} did the trick. I removed the other line I had.

Thank you very much.

Hi,

you could use the \counterwithin command provided by the chngcntr package.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just used this in my preamble:

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{6}
\renewcommand\theparagraph{\Alph{paragraph}}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\paragraph{\@startsection{paragraph}{4}{\z@}%
{-3 ...

Juanjo, thanks for your suggestion--it works very well. I have a related issue that is driving me crazy.

I structure my report using \section, \subsection, \subsubsection and \paragraph commands. I like the paragraphs, but the paragraph numbering usually continues across sections and subsections ...