Multi-level list style for bullets

Question

The rule for stable multi-level list styles has always been to assign a paragraph style to each level of the list, a rule that I have always followed when developing templates. However, I'm wondering if it really is still necessary. Here is the scenario that prompted this train of heretical thinking.

I need to create a template that has 4 numbered heading levels where each level of text is indented so that the number aligns with the start of the text of the previous level. So far nice and simple. Here is where it gets awkward. After each level I need to be able to insert a bulleted list. The bulleted list may, in turn, have up to 3 levels as pictured below in a rough example I knocked up.

So my question is:

Do I really need to create List Bullet 6 - List Bullet 12 or could I get away with creating 4 list styles with just one paragraph style attached at level 1 and then have the list style apply the further levels? Or would this, as I suspect, lead to instability?

Thanks

Answer 1

Since the indents are different, you need four more lists in addition to the list of headings (as you have stated). To be safe, you should set up a list style for each list and a set of unique paragraph styles for each level of the lists.

Answer 2

Hi,

why do you want to include bullets into a list style? Bullets are independent, there is not need to restart after a previous level. Just numbering has to be defined in a list style to avoid something like this:

1

1.1

1.2

2

1.3

1.4

1.5

Or what is your Intention?

Cheers,

Lisa

Answer 3

Hi Lisa

If the requirement for bullets was only a single level I would simply use the style. For a list like this, where there are sub-levels to the bullets, a list style is useful as it then allows the standard keyboard shortcuts to be used to go up and down the levels.

Thanks

Answer 4

Hi Stefan

Thanks for your response - not perhaps the one I wanted but exactly what I expected!

Sometimes you just question whether the way you have always done something is really the only, or best, way of doing it.

Thanks again