[Daiya Mitchell]

Your exact question (two questions?) is not making a whole lot of sense
to me, but certainly you can use cross-references to numbered items that
will update when the original number changes, without you typing it.

Look under Insert | Reference | Cross-Reference, and set a cross-ref to
the paragraph number of a numbered item.

Note that cross-references will not automatically update--you will need
to select all and hit F9 to Update Fields for them to change.

paul13 wrote:
Is there any way to change the number of a single member of a numbered list?

I am using numbered lists to number a set of examples, but when I refer back
to one in an example I don't want to mess with the numbering. I am trying to
ge a list to look like this

1. blah
2. foo
3. bar
2. foo
4. lol
5. other
6. more
etc...

Is there a way to do this?

Is there a way to use cross-reference or paste special so that the number of
the second "2.foo" is associated with the first "2.foo", and if the numbering
changes, or the text changes, the second will automatically change?
i.e. if the list changes to
1. blah
2. blah blah
3. foo foo
4. bar
(this one will automatically change to 3. foo foo if I only change the first?)

Thanks,

Paul O