When you've finished, click the Close button. On each tab, click each of the list templates in turn if the Reset button is available for that list template, click the button and click the Yes button in the confirmation dialog box. Choose Format » Bullets and Numbering to display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box. If your list numbering has gone wobbly, try resetting the list templates. You'll have to insert a new restart marker at the beginning of that list to preserve the correct numbering. So if you restart a list, then copy the first paragraph and paste it later in the document to create a new list, the numbering on the first list changes from "restart" to "continue," continuing the numbering of the previous list. If you copy or move this paragraph, the restart marker goes with it. Warning: Restarting a list manually places a restart marker in the first paragraph of the list. Restarting lists manually is seldom a satisfactory solution, but if your goal is simply to get the document printed with steps numbered correctly, it may be enough. Wait until the document is finished before you restart numbering, because otherwise the numbers may walk as you insert further lists. Word 2000 doesn't offer this command, so you must display the Bullets and Numbering dialog box, make sure the correct list template is selected, choose the "Restart numbering" option, and click the OK button. If you have the patience, you can restart each list manually by right-clicking its first item and choosing Restart Numbering from the shortcut menu. Let's take a look at your options for correcting (or avoiding) the problem. There are a few ways that you can try to correct the numbering, but the best way to work around this weakness in Word is not to create list templates by clicking the Numbering button on the Formatting toolbar or using the Bullets and Numbering dialog box. What's going wrong? The short answer is that Word's list templates, the templates on which lists are based, get uncomfortably wobbly once you've created more than a few lists in a document. If this starts happening, you're unlikely to find happiness in your near future. I figured the problem would be fixed in Word 2003, but if anything, it's even worse than Word 2000. I've seen this behavior in several versions of Word. If I right-click in the list and tell Word to continue numbering for this paragraph (which should be number 4), it continues the whole list from the previous list. It's okay for about the first three items, then it gets confused and starts again with number 1. So I right-click in the new list and choose Restart Numbering to tell Word to restart numbering for the list. First off, Word assumes that I'm trying to continue the previous list, even if it's five pages back. Each time I start a new list, the numbering gets all flaky. I'm working on a 300-page document that contains about 200 numbered lists explaining procedures.
Automatic numbering of lists is wonderful until it goes wrong, and then it's a screaming nightmare.
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