

On the Home tab, go to the Paragraph group.Don’t set up a new list style for each level – it won’t work. Tip: When you define a new Multilevel List style, define ALL levels in it at once.

Step 1: Set up a new multilevel list style Please take your time and work through the instructions one step at a time - this is not something you can do while you’re focused on something else, so turn off Twitter, email notifications etc. Warning! This is a long series of steps as I’m going to take you through setting up three list levels. The example I work through below creates a multilevel numbered list that looks something like this (ignore the formatting - you can sort that out later): Hopefully these instructions will help someone else (as well as remind me how to do it again next time I’m asked to troubleshoot multilevel lists!). Ultimately, I had to set up new styles for him and reapply them to the document, but I finally got it working after about an hour or so.

He gave his OK, so back to Word I went, determined to master this multilevel list numbering. I sent an email to my client letting him know that Word had probably beaten me on this one, and asking him if he wanted me to persevere for a little while longer. I tried every trick I knew to get those second level numbers to reset, but I couldn’t figure it out. I think I’ve finally figured out how to get proper multilevel numbering happening in Word 2007!Ī client called me in desperation - they had an employment contract with multilevel numbering, but somewhere along the way the numbering got screwed.
