How can I continue a numbered list?
Asked by Sevval:

Hi, I have a problem. Using confluence 6.9.1 - I started a numbered list to add steps in. ?nsert a bullet list and would like to continue with the number list rather than starting at one again.

Example:

# Step 1 text here

#Step 2 text here

* bullet list here

# this should be step 3 but starting from step 1

How do you solve this problem?


Answers:
author: Jared Brenner
body: Hi Sevval,

Are you using Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server? I was able to continue a numbered list in my instance of Server:

![Bullet.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/47281i24FA9577C70D74A7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bullet.PNG")

Good luck!

comments: author: Sevval
body: Hi Jared,

Thank you for your support. I tried now. Done!

Have a nice day.


author: Manoj Parashar
body: Suggested solution does not work when I have inserted an image between step 2 and step 3, instead of bullet list. Can you please sugges solution?


author: Trevor Hungerford
body: Did you find a way around this? I am having this issue too.


author: Chris Runciman
body: Have you tried using Shift + Enter to add a soft line break? You can add an image or code snippet etc while the list continues below.

It's easier if you add the following step first. So if you want to add an image between step 2 and step 3, create your list like so:

1. Step 1
2. Step 2
3. Step 3

Then use Shift + Enter at step 2 to add a soft line break:

1. Step 1
2. Step 2  
   \[embed your image/whatever here\]
3. Step 3


author: James Lowe
body: Thanks! That had been driving me mad!


author: Marcus O_Brien
body: This doesn't seem to work when inserting a Info Panel or Note. I've tried copy and pasting the info box, or just inserting one like the instructions above, i.e. create one on the soft line

Does anyone have a way to add Info Panels in a numbered list and keep the numbers contiguous ?

Thanks


author: James Lowe
body: Alas, I haven't been able to get info or notes numbered either. I did try.

The best I could come up with is using the :info: or :information_source: or :warning: emoji at the start of the line.


author: Margeaux Killian
body: I cannot get continued numbering to work in different rows on Confluence, such as for a process where each row is a different user, but the process should have continued numbering.


author: Fr?d?ric FINET
body: The provided "solutions" only work while you remain in a list. If you want to insert any other type of text block (such as a header, a warning pannel..., the list gets broken :( )


author: Scott Paden
body: Very disappointing.


author: Rob Schedel
body: Here is a less-than-perfect workaround, but it will do in a pinch.  

After you create your Info box or what have you with the text that you want, take a cropped, screen capture of it. Go to your numbered list and do a Shift + Enter at the end of the line where you would like to insert your Info box, and paste your screen capture.  

Kludgy, but it works. It would be so much better if they offered an option to renumber though.

comments: author: Doneen Johnson
body: It might be kludgy, but it's the best work-around I've heard so far. Thanks for sharing!


author: Dawn Rodney
body: Thank you! That worked! Wow, seriously... can you please just add a RESTART NUMBERING feature????? I've been having to work around this for years. Yet, Google Docs, Word and a ton of other word processing tools have it forEVER.


author: James Lowe
body: I created <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Feature-request-Allow-numbered-lists-to-continue-either-side-of/qaq-p/1810942#M218948> as it wasn't obvious if there was a FR elsewhere (or how to see FR's generally for Confluence).

So I am sure someone will tell me if there is one already or if I have asked in the wrong place - Cunningham's law and all that ;)


author: Oliver Webb
body: I got most of the way there by using shift+enter then inserting my images but if you have several indentations it seems to break in a different way:

![2024-06-13_13-52-03.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/329690iA0C9F1174C568001/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2024-06-13_13-52-03.png")


author: Yuriy Makaruk
body: ![2022-11-03_13-19-59.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/223960i9F2043550C5DB7B7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2022-11-03_13-19-59.gif")


author: Colin Sheppard
body: I used a Table with the option of a Numbered Column.


author: James Lowe
body: I created <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Feature-request-Allow-numbered-lists-to-continue-either-side-of/qaq-p/1810942#M218948> as it wasn't obvious if there was a FR elsewhere (or how to see FR's generally for Confluence). So I am sure someone will tell me if there is one already or if I have asked in the wrong place - Cunningham's law and all that ;)


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