Workaround formats bulleted/numbered lists in Lotus Notes documents

If you're using a numbered/bulleted list in Lotus Notes and interrupt the list with a blank line, the next bullet starts at beginning (i.e., 1., A., etc.). In Microsoft Word documents, you can resume the number list at any point by changing the properties, but that isn't possible in Lotus Notes. A shortcut could be to indent the list and use a bullet, but this doesn't look good.

Additionally, when the first part of the text in a bulleted list is bold or a different color, the bullet mark itself takes on that property. If you don't want this, you can use a space as the leading character

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in the line, then select that space and either un-bold it or assign the desired color to it.

If you combine and indent (i.e., different numbering), then change the color space to white (match your background color), the bullet will no longer show. Once you want to go back to the next formatted numbered line, don't indent.

Now your numbering will be uninterrupted and there's no unwanted bulleted list. This workaround is especially helpful when used with screenshots in which you want an item to be in the center of the text, but can't insert a new line without interrupting the list count.

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