Automate numbered bullets in sections at numerous levels with paragraphs of text between them

Question

Hi all. I have a legal document that needs bullet points at numerous levels with some up to five levels deep.

The best way to describe what I require is to provide a screenshot of something that I have created manually as seen here:

As you can see, there are a few levels, and to add to the complexity there are paragraphs of text that arern't bullets.

The document is 100+ pages long and I'd love for it to be automated because if a new sub-section or sub-sub bullet is added in the middle of content, then I'd like the following bullets to automatically update.

How can I do this in InDesign?

James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted Answer

The very short answer is to use named lists for each hierarchy. Leaving all lists in the [Default] space means the document has no sense of order when lists are interrupted and continued.

It will also be advantageous to have two styles for at least the top-level list item: one that continues numbering, and one that is identical/cloned/child but restarts numbering at 1.

Ask away if that's not clear enough to proceed.

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