Please let me preface this by saying there are few things in the world I hate more than trying to figure out Paragraph numbering styles in MS Word. I've watched tutorials, followed steps, whatever, but I can never set something up using the editors that gives me what I want--not just in the current document, but for all of them. I have been able to figure out all kinds of funky other things you can do with Word, but paragraph numbering styles flat-out stymies the hell out of me.

I want to be able to have a multilevel list that has the formattingshown at the bottom of this post. If there is a way for me to simply to type some sentences in a word doc where I manually set the settings and then execute some ninja-code function that tells the damn program just to copy and use it, that would be great, but I'll happily do everything within the style commands themselves if someone can help me through this. I know it shouldn't be as difficult as I'm finding it, but I'm officially at my wit's end.

I want it to be that when I click on the Multi-level List icon on the paragraph ribbon that the above format is the format used every single time as the default. Hitting <enter> should automatically generate the next number on the level; <tab> should advance the level; <shift-tab> should decrease the level. My thanks in advance for whatever help you can offer. Here's what I want it to look like. (The green lines are reference points to the ruler lines.)


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