Cannot restart numbering in lists

[Cath]

Hi,
I have a long document in which i have a number of
standard lists (1., 2., 3. )which are a defined style.
Many of the lists are fine but some of them continue on
from the previous when they shouldn't. If I go in and use
Restart Numbering, formatting on the whole page goes
haywire and jumps to one side of the page.

If I take the style off the list and then reapply it again
it still continues the list.

Anybody got any idea on how to fix it?

Thanks,
Cath

 

[Stefan Blom]

Please see:

How to restart style-based numbering
http://www.syntagma.demon.co.uk/FAQs/ListRestartMethods.htm

 

[Bruce Brown]

One thing you can do is use a hidden LISTNUM field at the end of each
*previous* numbered entry.

You go back to the last numbered paragraph *before* the one you want
to restart. Just before its paragraph mark, insert either:

{ LISTNUM \S 0 ) or { LISTNUM \L 1 \S 0 }

One of the two will work depending on the style. Then select the field
and put it in hidden font. What you're doing is restarting the style
at 0 and hiding it, so the next instance of the style will always be
numbered at 1. Some people don't like the idea of hidden font, but it
works quite reliably and, unlike Word's Reset, can be pasted anywhere
without losing the number values.