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Style-Based Numbering Never Defaults to Restart at 1

Anonymous
2020-09-02T15:26:47+00:00

I am working on a 400 page long activity book with lots of lists of questions and other stuff throughout, interspersed with other text. I am using the Style Window on the Home tab to applying various of that kind of style to the text to prepare it for printing.

I have defined a multilist style. When I apply that style to multilevel lists that my author already created, the first item in the list does NOT restart at 1, despite the fact that I have told it to restart at one wherever possible. It seems to me there must be a bug when you tell a style to restart at 1 and it does not in fact do that. Is there a bug or is this just how Windows works? So far, most people seem to agree it's the latter, but I hold out hope it is the former.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T13:25:20+00:00

    I set it up in multilevel lists and have checked there 5-10 times. Ususlly if I change anything there it does the total opposite and I have to go back and do it again. 

    the only new thing I did was change the font. 

    all of you admit the system is buggy and crazy but still insist buggy crazy things don’t fix it. Thanks for the help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T11:29:35+00:00

    Define the font in the “lists” button on the Hone tab. The blank where I put the information litetersly said “font”. 

    all the other style stiff had BEEN defined and would not work correctly. In fact working with the Style window made it worse!

    i know what worked for me!

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-09-02T15:43:17+00:00

    Link your numbered style to Level 2 of a multilevel list. By default, it will restart after Level 1, which you link to some (unnumbered) style that always precedes or interrupts the numbered lists. Make sure that all the indents on the left are set in the Define New Multilevel List dialog and not in the Paragraph dialog. For more on multilevel lists, see https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html Note that you apply numbering by applying the paragraph style, not the list style.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-03T14:29:43+00:00

    What I want is level 1 = 1,2,3 level 2= a,b,c level 3 = bullets. So far it does this. I just have to restart numbers every time for every level 1 and level 2 list.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-03T14:28:46+00:00

    So I have to create a new list style that I don't use and then link it to this one?

    To make this style, I created a multi-list style and tried to define it as a style. I don't know if it's a paragraph style or a list style. Where would I even find that out? 

    So far every time I've messed with this, it redoes every list in the document, often undoing whatever I do. You have no idea how long it took me to get it do .33 indents instead of default so I'm terrified to touch this unless I know exactly what I am supposed to do. Honestly lists in Word make me want to stab my eyes out with a fork!

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