Combining numbered and bulleted lists in Word

Subject: Combining numbered and bulleted lists in Word
From: "Chesler, Lynn" <lchesler -at- auspicecorp -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:25:18 -0500 (EST)

Hi All:

I'm moving an existing doc set into a Word (2003) template that I created.
My list styles use a Word list template. I have the first level set up as
a List Intro that causes the following list to restart at 1 when I press
ENTER (Level 2). Level 3 uses a,b,c and Level 4 uses i,ii,iii. It all
works beautifully until I throw bullets into the mix, which mess up both
the indents and numbering restarts.

Let's say I'm writing installation steps. Step 5 branches so that you have
two options. Each of those options then has 2 or 3 steps. What I want is:

5. At the prompt blah blah, do one of the following:
* If you want to install the database on this machine:
a. Blah blah
b. Blah blah
* If you want to install the database on a different machine:
a. Blah blah
b. Blah blah
c. Blah blah
6. Yada yada


What I end up with is:

5. At the prompt blah blah, do one of the following:
* If you want to install the database on this machine:
i. Blah blah
ii. Blah blah
* If you want to install the database on a different machine:
iii. Blah blah
iv. Blah blah
v. Blah blah
6. Yada yada

Because the a, b, c level (Level 3) is at the the same indentation as the
bullets, I have to resort to using i,ii,iii (Level 4), which is not the
end of the world. The larger problem is that I can't restart Level 4
without a previous Level 3 step, and I don't have one. Is there a way to
do this without manually restarting iii?

Conceptually, it seems to me that the problem is having all the lists tied
together. In FM or QuickSilver I would have separate lists for a,b,c and
i,ii,iii.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance for any help!

Lynn

Lynn M. Chesler
Technical Publications
Auspice Corporation
781-398-3256
www.auspicecorp.com




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