Several Multilevel Lists in a document

[Aston]

Here's the problem. We have, for example, a multi-language contract. Each langauage version of the contract is placed next to each other for convenience. Let's say we have a contract in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.

The contract uses an outline numbering, like so:

1. Paragraph Heading
1.1. Paragraph Text
1.2. Paragraph Text
1.1.1. Additional Paragraph text
2. Paragraph Heading, etc. etc.

I use a List Style linked to Headings. Although the list is usually up to 3 levels deep only, I want to reserve all 9 levels. So I linked each Heading style level (Heading 1 through Heading 9) to the respective level of a List Style (Level 1 - 9).

Now I need to have the same multilevel list for two other languages, like so:

1. Paragragph Heading in French
1.1. Paragraph Text in French
1.1.1. Additional Paragraph Text in French
2. Paragraph Heading in French etc. etc.

What surprises me is that I can't seem to reuse my List Style for French (and then one more time for Spanish), even though I thought the whole idea of styles was to be able to reuse them.

I tried restarting the new list at 1, but if you update any of the heading styles the numbering will resume from the previous list, messing up the whole thing.

The lists for different languages look identical, so it would be nice to reuse a style, but instead I need to create 21 Paragraph styles (9 x 3 languages) and 3 List Styles (for each language)?

Or am I missing something?

I would appreciate any ideas about how it can be accomplished in an efficient way.



Thanks