Hi Jonny,

To remove the unwanted indenting, click on the 'Decrease indent' symbol on the paragraph block on the Ribbon's Home tab.

Alternatively, hitting enter twice after an existing paragraph will result in a new un-numbered and un-indented paragraph being created. you could then type the (a) in the new paragraph and, when you press the space or tab key, a re-started a-b-c sequence will hve started. You can then simply copy the text from the 'problem' paragraph into it, then delete the problem paragraph.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for the input, but unfortunately I can not get this to work, pressing enter twice now just gives me new paragraphes without the numbering sequence.

Is there not a way to just copy the formatting from before? I don't understand where the numbering has come from and where to find it again. If it was like an html page, I can deal with code, I can program that is not a problem, but no when I can't find the code.

regards

Jonny

Thank you very much macropod for helping me, I know I am one of the worlds most difficult students, and I applaud your perseverance with me.

I have found the answer now. Here is how I did it for anyone who has the same problem.

First go to the toolbar ribbon thing, and select show or hide toolbox.

Go to the little toolbox window, and click the paragraph tab so you can see what you have been using so far.
Then:
View - Toolbars - formatting

Go up to the new formatting ribbon (make sure you are using the same paragraph style in the toolbox, in my case it is list) Click the numbering icon and a little lightning bolt appears by your cursor on the page, click this, and you have a choice of continuous numbering or starting again.

I hope this helps.

Again, 4 hours of formatting, 2 hours of grade A degree worthy work.

total 8 hours of format in word, 4 hours research and essay writing.

Thanks microsoft, a little format off button would really help.

Kind regards

Jonny