Much better solution to list numbering problem

24 January 2010, 07:35

A reader pointed me to issue 100262, where I learned a much better way to solve the problem with master documents described in this post.

Here is the secret:

Right-click on the first list item in the first list in the document and choose Paragraph, not Restart Numbering.
On the Paragraph dialog, go to the Outline & Numbering tab.
Under Numbering, choose Restart at this paragraph and 1 for Start with. Click OK to save.

Note: If you do not explicitly choose 1 for Start with, the setting is not retained!

This is a bit cumbersome, but works fine. Unfortunately I can see no way to build it into a paragraph style.

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