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I added the H to separate this style from all other auto-numbering that I had established in the project. If you don’t do this, then Flare won’t know to separate numbering chapters from numbering figures and you’ll have a big mess ...

â– Series labels are prefixes to a format (comprised of one or two letters and a colon) that provide a way to limit numbering sequences for different purposes.

example
If you are creating auto-numbers for procedures and figure captions in the same content flow, you do not want them to use the same numbering sequence. Otherwise, you might have something like:

Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Figure 4.
Figure 5.
Figure 6.

When what you really want is:

Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.

To keep something like this from happening, you can add series labels to the format (e.g., start the step format with S: and start the figure format with F:).

Although Flare includes H: in the list of available commands, that is simply one example of a series label. The letter that you use as a series label is arbitrary. You can replace H and choose any letter of the alphabet, followed by a colon. The exception to this is a two-letter series label, in which the first letter represents a series that encompasses more than just one topic. For example, CH is an example of a series label that applies across an entire chapter. The H can be replaced with another letter, but you must keep the C in order to use this command.

Finally, it's important to note that a series label must always be the first element in an auto-number format.

Josh101 wrote:So, does anyone know why Flare is continuing my numbering from a bullet list? Maybe someone has a better method of single sourcing this procedure than the way I have done it so I can avoid this issue?

1. Place your cursor in an empty paragraph, then in the Home tab, click the list icon drop-down menu and select Numbered List.
2. Type the text of the first numbered list item then press Enter to create a new numbered list item. Repeat this step as necessary.
3. To switch to a bullet list, repeat step 2 above to create a new numbered list item, then back in the Home tab click the Indent icon to create a child list inside the parent list. The numbered list item will indent and restart at number 1.
4. In the Home tab, click the list icon drop-down menu and select Bullet List. That child list's first line item will change from a number to a bullet.
5. Type the text for that bullet list item then press Enter to create a new bullet list item. Repeat this step as necessary.
6. To go back to the parent list, repeat step 5 above to create a new bullet list item, then back in the Home tab click the Outdent icon. The cursor will move to the left but won't appear to be either numbered or bulleted.
7. In the Home tab, click the list icon drop-down menu and select Numbered List. That blank line will change to a numbered list item and will automatically be set to the next number in sequence from where you left it at step 2 above.
8. Repeat the various steps above to continue adding list items, creating child lists and list items, returning to the parent list, and so on.

Josh101 wrote:So how I dealt with this is I used the Continue Sequence setting on the snippet procedure.

Psider wrote:@i-tietz I don't think the ul list should have the value defined. It doesn't make sense to me to count bullets as numbers. If there's no prior OL, then it should just start at 1.