OK. I tested, using styles. Same result you are seeing. This includes using the mapped content control.



Make your list a lower level and insert a higher level paragraph between.
Here is a link to a sample file.

Wow that's some next level stuff, thank you for showing me this.

Basically, my goal with this is to create an "executive summary" of my report that is based on cross-referencing bookmarks from within the main report.

When I finish editing my report, I can simply "update field" and it automatically generates an executive summary for me, based on text within the main report.

This all works fine except the numbered list problem I outlined in the original post.

I appreciate you spending the time to help solve this problem for me. I am still pretty new to Word and am struggling to grasp the concept of what you did, and how to replicate it from scratch. Could you explain step-by-step how to implement your solution?

Thank you again Charles!