I have a headache with unwanted movements of tabulators in user created styles. I wanted to attach a short .avi video of this (29Mb), but this is not possible due to lacking security tags.


So in words it goes this way:
At the second instance of alphanumeric numbering (a), b), c)) I want to restart numbering from a), as it starts at d). So I right click, restart from a is the command, the points are renumbered, but the a) point jumps to the right by about one tab. When I move the paragraph back and do the "Update the style xy to match the selection", the numbering jumps back to d), and the vicious circle can start again. :-)
Any help or solution? I will mail the video but have to figure out how.

Word's numbering issues are legend, and can be time-consuming and frustrating, a you have discovered. The jumping is a reuslt of Word automatically reverting to a background numbering format in preset list styles, one of the things that allows automated numbering a paragraph styles. A number of these are built in and often work well; but not in applications such as yours. Without writing a custom macro that would somehow limit your numbering within a style to a,b,c and then restart it (out of my league), the simplest work-arounds I can think of, are

1) manually numbering, i.e., not using auto-numbering at all
2) try manually numbering every other grouping of a-c
3) creating a second, identical list style to alternate each time you get to c.

Measures 2 and 3 may not even work that well, and will require careful checking (rather, unchecking) of all of the possible auto-numbering options in Word's set-up options.