Word 2013 - Bulleted list inside rich text content control

Hi,
I'm mapping a rich text content control to an xml node within my custom xml.
While i'm in design mode i try to format the text so that it will be a numbered list.
One thing that i noted though was that the numbers are placed outside the content control. This is only my first observation.
The thing is, the rich text(RTF) that is saved within the custom xml is later used to populate a second document. This works great except for one small issue. The numbered list is not showing up within the second document.
Would appreciate any help i can get with this issue.
Br,
/Peter
Peter

Hi Peter
This is tricky, because...
By default, when you insert a new RichText content control it will not include the paragraph mark for the paragraph it's in. Numbering is a paragraph-level formatting.
If you work in Word, you can see this. Turn on the display of non-printing characters (the backwards P button in the "Home" tab of the Ribbon). Insert a RT content control and observe where the paragraph mark (backwards P) is in relation to the
CC's boundaries. Now press ENTER and observe that the paragraph mark is WITHIN the CC. Apply number formatting and you'll see that it's NOW inside the CC.
You can do this the other way around: apply the numbering then press ENTER. Again, it should now be within the CC.
This behavior is by-design. I would guess that lists the users type would have more than entry, so the numbering will be within the CC range when the custom XML is extracted?
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