Anna,

Each time you press the Enter key to get a new numbered line, you're
actually creating a new paragraph. Select your numbered list, go to 'Format
Paragraph...' and in the 'Spacing' section, set 'Spacing before' to 6pt.
That should do the trick.

Steve



"Anna Summers" wrote in message
...
I was trying to get a bit of space (a half line to a line) between each
item
on a numbered list and it was a nightmare. I started reading about the
numbered list situation, which seems to me to be a basic item for a word
processor to accomplish easily.

What a gleaned from my reading was that Word 2003 list numbering does NOT
work reliably and that it takes someone with time to study programming and
writing cryptic code to get it to work properly. I am astounded! I
thought
word was supposed to be some great word processor - and it can't even
provide
and easy-do-do simple thing like a numbered list - not even 1. 2. 3. with
a
bit of space between the items instead of running them together?

Does WordPerfect provide an easy way to produce a numbered list?

Anna