The text is behaving entirely correctly based on the html you
have created. As Leon identified it is the use of the <br>
that is giving the result you describe and do not want.
Effectively what a <br> tag says to any html display is
start the next line of text in line with this line, do not display
the numbering or bullets that you otherwise would if the Enter key
had been pressed instead of Shift + Enter and retain the same font
etc.
Here's what you need to do to get the result I think you
want.
At the end of the first sentence which ends "select a
record", you have used a hard paragraph break (pressed Enter). That
is correct.
At the end of the second sentence with the open bullet, you
have entered a soft break (pressed Shift + Enter). Wrong. Press
Enter instead. Initially a bullet point will also display.
Click the bullet icon and the bullet will go and all the
block will move extreme left. Point 2 will become point 1, we will
fix that later.
Press Enter again to get you blank line back.
Put the cursor in front of To Add a new field and press
backspace followed by Enter. The text will look the same but
instead of a <br> tag at the end of the first sentence, you
will have a </p> tag.
Repeat that for each line before what was point 2.
You will now find that each line is quite independant of the
next. Use the text align icon in any line to prove it.
Finally put the cursor in the second numbered point and right
click. Select Bullets and Numbering and note the Restart Numbering
field. Set that to 2 and you are away.
Post back if that is not what you want. The text is, as I
said, working correctly based on the html rules.
Another way of achieving what you want is to create a table
where you use the first column just to manually enter the numbers.
The second column then contains the text but it will be a bit
easier to manipulate. Try it and see which method you prefer.
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