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Quick Tip: Continuing the Sequence of an Interrupted Ordered List

Jennifer White | December 4, 2013

While perusing Twitter for some cool stuff to share with my followers, I came across this tweet:

Why yes, Zack, yes there is!

First, make the items after the text that “interrupts” your list into their own separate list, like this:

Next, place your cursor into one of the list items, like this:

Now, right click on the ol (ordered list) structure bar and select “Continue Sequence” from the drop-down menu.

Et voilà! Your list has continued, just the way you wanted it to.

Guy Ball says:

April 23, 2019 at 1:38 PM

Bravo on this tip. I only wish it were part of your normal Flare help. But at least I found it.

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Nick says:

May 13, 2019 at 8:45 AM

It would be good to know how to quickly break/split a numbered list that’s already created. Suppose I have created numbered list with steps 1 – 23. I now want to add an ordinary p paragraph block between steps 12 and 13. How can I quickly split the list in two to insert the p block? It’s a common requirement, but is there an easy way to do it?

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1. Jorgeo Catolico says:
  
  May 16, 2019 at 10:03 AM
  
  Hey Nick,
  
  The easiest way is to first unbind the list, then with the first part of the list, create a numbered list. Then add the p tag, and then select the rest of the content to make another list. You can then right click on the second list and choose “Continue Sequence”.
  There isn’t a shortcut to insert a p tag in the middle of existing list items. There’s the keyboard shortcut “ctrl + ;” however, that will only add a nested p tag into a li tag.
  The only way to insert a p tag is to go into the text editor and insert it manually. I believe the reason that Flare does not support any shortcuts for this is because it isn’t semantically correct to have a p tag on its own line within a or (although flare will not punish you for doing this and it will still render correctly).
  
  Hope this helps!
  
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