[zoey-mi]

I have a long list that is auto-numbered. I need to delete "randomly" about
1/3 of the entried, but keep the original numbering scheme. For example the
list would read:
1
2
4
5
6
9
11
12
15
etc. - where items 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, and 14 were dropped from the list. I
know that you can "restart" the numbering, but I have almost 500 items on the
list, so restarting would be very tedious.

If I can change the auto numbering to "hard coded numbers" - such that they
would not change when I delete some lines, that would be ideal.

Thanks,
zoey-mi