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Continuing Numbering from One List to Another. If you have a couple of numbered lists separated by regular text paragraphs, you might want the secondary lists to be continuations of the first one. Setting this up is rather easy.

Lining Up Numbers in Numbered Lists. Want to make your numbered lists look just a bit more professional? You can do it by making sure that the numbers line up according to the periods in the numbers.

Stop Word from Automatically Formatting Numbered Lists. Type what Word thinks is a numbered list, and it will helpfully format the text to match what it thinks your numbered list should look like. If you don't want Word to automatically do such formatting, you need the info in this tip.