Numbered Lists Don't allow spacing?

[Tess Baird]

Hello - I would like to add spacing or snips between each line of my numbered lists. But when I do that, it restarts the following line back at 1. 

If I add snips on the same line as the text, the snips can only be the size of the line  - making the snips smaller. It also makes it so the text, snip, text sandwich is SO close together with no line spacing between lines. This makes it hard to read. 

Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? 

I can't have the numbers restart at 1. And if I manually type in the correct line number (say it's 57.) then if I ever need to change something prior to line 57, all the numbers after that will be off (it does not update). 

Please help! 

I would like it to look like the attached photo. Notice how there is a lot of spacing between the snips and the numbered lines. The snips are on their own line and I am able to center them which I like. But in this photo example, I had to write each numbered line out manually and they do not update if I delete or add a line. 

I have seen on other posts that people reccommend this: 

1. In the next blank paragraph, click the numbered list button to get a numbered paragraph with 1.
2. Press Backspace to remove the number.
3. Type 4. and press Space. This restarts your list with 4 (use whatever number you need).
4. Repeat these steps everywhere you need to continue your list numbering (using the appropriate numbering style for the list level).
   
   

This method ONLY works if you plan to Never change anything after it has been published. Say I have a list of 150 numbered lines for some technical writing and say I need to later on delete line 57. Well, line 57 will be gone, but it does not correct all the remaining lines. It will simply go from line 56 to line 58. 

[Barbara Szczesniak · Accepted solution]

@Tess Baird This is a well-known issue in Confluence Cloud, reported in this ticket https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67862 in 2019 and still showing as a Suggestion. Feel free to comment, vote for, and watch it.

I don't use a lot of images in my Confluence documentation, since the dev team tends to change the screens as soon as I insert a screenshot. When I do put them in, I don't like how much vertical space they take up, so, unless they are very wide, I tend to use either layouts or a table to put the relevant steps on the left and images on the right. 

There have been some changes to lists over the past few years, so I'm not sure whether the numbered list can continue in a column over multiple consecutive layouts or rows in a table, but you can experiment and see what works for you.

[Tess Baird]

Hello Barbara - thank you! I voted for the issue. This is exactly what I was looking for. 

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Tess Baird You should also try the suggestion from @Kris Klima _K15t_. 

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

Hi @Tess Baird 

You mean like this?

1. Line one
   
   
2. Line two
   
   
3. Line three

1. After you write the first numbered line, hit Shift+Enter (so called soft return).
   This creates an extra space (also useful to insert images and some macros in a list without interrupting the list).
2. Then hit Enter.
   This creates a new numbered line.
3. Like this.

[Tess Baird]

No, actually the opposite. 
I want the numbering to continue to 4 after the extra space. 

[Kris Klima _K15t_]

1. Line one
   
   
2. Line two
   
   
3. Line three
   
   
4. It does continue to four now, using the same method.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Tess Baird I used Kris' method in my response on this question this morning: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-questions/copy-heading-link/qaq-p/3164285 

After the text of step 2, I pressed Shift+Enter, then inserted the first image, and pressed Enter to automatically get step 3. I repeated the Shift+Enter to insert the second image after that step.

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@Tess Baird @Barbara Szczesniak mentions in her comment, this is a well-known issue with numbered lists in Confluence.

The linked ticket in her comment contains a workaround with tables, though I agree that it's far from ideal. Using soft returns (see @Kris Klima _K15t_ comment) is also a possible solution, but I find that inserting certain snippets always resets the numbering. 

While it isn't directly applicable to your scenario, we sell an app (link) that automatically numbers headings on Confluence pages. You can add, edit or remove headings or other content and it will all update automatically.

[Varsha Joshi]

hi @Tess Baird 

Have you tried using a table and using the table numbering? That seems to add some white space.

Thanks

Varsha

[Tess Baird]

Hello - No the information isn't really geared towards table format since I have a lot of pictures that are all different sizes.