Suggestions to make creating and maintaining lists easier:
1) Restart numbering after unnumbered paragraphs and headings. To reflect the majority of user scenarios which are unlikely to need continuous lists across sections and headings, from top 1) to bottom 495)
2) Provide means to change the appearance of existing lists in an easier fashion other than via Find & Replace which takes too much manual interaction to avoid unwanted replacements. 1. 1) 1- etc are also used in phone numbers, area codes, price tags ....
Thank you.