Restarting Simple List Numbered with Paragraph Styles

[Greg]

I'm using Word 2007, and have a template from a publisher which I
believe was designed for prior versions of Word (based on .dot & .doc
extensions). I'm going mad over restarting list numbering. Simple lists.

The template came with para styles NL1, NL, and NLX for the first,
middle, and last paragraphs of a numbered list, NL1 and NLX having
different leading/trailing space. It also came with no visible numbering
at all.

I can't live with that, so I changed NL with modify style - numbering -
picked the first built-in style. NL1 and NLX were based on NL, so at
first blush all worked. Until the second list, which continued the
numbering from the first.

I looked around and couldn't find any way to associate "set the number
to 1" with para style NL1, so I right-clicked on an NL1 and picked
"restart numbering at 1".

Berzerk. The numbers were right, but the style of the paragraph changed
to NL! With the wrong space before, of course.

So, can anybody tell me

(a) If there's a way to associate number reset with a para style?
Please? MVP pages make no mention of this, so I'm pessimistic, but
thought I'd ask anyway.

(b) How do I fix that other bizarre behavior when I restart the
numbering manually?

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you base a style on numbered style (so that the two styles share the
numbering), the original style will be reapplied when you restart the
numbering (via the right-click/context menu). As far as I know, there is no
way to change that behavior.

What you can do is set up a multilevel list and use higher levels to restart
the lower levels as needed.

 

[Greg]

If you base a style on numbered style (so that the two styles share the
numbering), the original style will be reapplied when you restart the
numbering (via the right-click/context menu). As far as I know, there is no
way to change that behavior.

What you can do is set up a multilevel list and use higher levels to restart
the lower levels as needed.

Thanks for the information. I hadn't known that about restarting
numbering. It's counterintuitive, but that's nothing new.