Return to same bullet after sub bullets
Asked by Jan-Dani?l de Villiers:

Good day good people. I hope the heading is descriptive enough, and I hope I didn't miss this topic in my searches here for answers.

Viewing the following sample bullet list:

1. Some text goes here  
   Which I can multiline using shift-enter
2. And another point is made here, with sub-points
   1. (a) first sub-point to note
   2. (b) second sub-point. shift-tab makes this 3 and increments rest  
      Multiline, shift-tab here has the same effect as on previous line
3. Last bit of text

What if I want to add some "conclusion" to point \`2\` on the same level, after sub-points \`a\` and \`b\`? (I refer to \`a\` and \`b\`, as that's how Confluence numbers the sub-bulleted list on a page, and to help to differentiate between the levels I'm referring to.)  

If I \`shift-enter\` after \`b\` to a new line, and press \`shift-tab\` to outdent, it makes \`b\` \`3\`. I've tried a number of things, but can't add text to the root level of the same main point after a sub-bullet.

To explain what I want to do, here's a "hand indented" version of the same list, with text added in bold where I want to place it.

1. Some text goes here  
Which I can multiline using shift-enter  
2. And another point is made here, with sub-points  
a) first sub-point to note  
b) second sub-point. shift-tab makes this 3 and increments rest  
Multiline, shift-tab here has the same effect as on previous line  
**I want to add text after the sub-bullets which is still relevant to (2) here**   
3. Last bit of text  

I find this impossible to achieve. Any help or suggestions welcome.


Answers:
author: davidwelch
body: I noticed that you can Tab to go in (make sub bullets), and Shift-tab to go back out. This means you can Shift-tab to go back to the bullet level you would expect and not have that gap.

comments: author: Michelle Cohen
body: THANK YOU!!!!


author: Jeff Sykes
body: After wrestling with this headache for at least a year, I finally looked for answers, and what **davidwelch** said above is exactly what i needed. THANKS!


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, that is tough. If you want the text at the same level, you cannot place it where you want in your example: it has to be below the main bullet text, using Shift+enter.

Why you asked? This is an ordered HTML list, and to do what you want would require applying a classed span tag around that text to change its indent (something that is tricky to do within Confluence (even with a user macro due to a bug that wraps macros in p tags).

Bottom line, you have to live within the constraints of autogenerated HTML.

This of course is easier with unordered lists. Generally for documentation, you only use ordered lists for a series of steps that must be completed in a particular sequence. All else should be formatted using bullets. It will make your life easier.

comments: author: Jan-Dani?l de Villiers
body: Thank you for the detailed reply, Bill, it's much appreciated.

It is indeed a series of steps, I have a reference screenshot with the required fields marked and the sub-numbers is what to enter in each. The document is laid out with instruction, followed by reference image/screenshot. In this case then, there is a line about the step at 2, with each field at a, b, etc, and then the image below that, which would make more sense if it's indented back to 2 again.

But alas, easy enough to find a formatting way around it.

Thanks again. Have a good day.


author: Bill Bailey
body: You will also want this free plugin: [confluence-source-editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor?hosting=server&tab=overview). It will really help you straighten out complex nested lists.


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