Often, while creating a numbered list in your Word document, you may need to add a paragraph that shouldn’t be numbered. After pausing the list to type this parenthetical information, you may want to resume the numbered list. How do you pick up where you left off? Here’s a quick rundown:

1. Put your cursor at the place where you’d like to resume numbering.
2. Right-click ([control]-click on the Mac) and select Bullets And Numbering.
3. On the Numbered tab, click the numbering style you used previously and select Continue Previous List.

If Word automatically resumes your previous list when you wanted to start a new one, follow the previous steps, but select Restart Numbering instead of Continue Previous List.

In Word 2002 and later, you can use an AutoCorrect Options ToolTip to change your list numbering even faster. Move your cursor to the point where you’d like to resume numbering, and click the Numbering button on the Formatting toolbar. When you do so, Word starts a new list, and the AutoCorrect Options button appears, as shown in Figure A. Click the AutoCorrect Options ToolTip and select Continue Numbering.

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