List step 1 gets "continue" number when new list added

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christophercbrewster - 29 Oct 2007 19:41 GMT

My subject line tried to say it: I make a numbered list, let's say Directions
to My House, and reset the number of the first step so that it's 1. Then I
add a list somewhere before that list, Directions to Tom's House, which has
three steps. Now step 1 of My House is renumbered to 4. Since I had manually
set that step at 1, why does it lose that setting? Any solution?

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Stefan Blom - 30 Oct 2007 10:40 GMT

If this is numbering applied with a paragraph style, the default is to
continue the numbering. You can use a LISTNUM field to force a restart (see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/listrestartbylistnum.htm).

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> My subject line tried to say it: I make a numbered list, let's say
> Directions
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> manually
> set that step at 1, why does it lose that setting? Any solution?

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