Is there a way to lock and unlock paragraph numbering

Here’s what I want to do.

Take a scene: Number peragraphs.

Then paste this into a spelling and grammar checker, or use an AI and ask it for suggestions.

Or I’m sending it to a co-author for comment.

And they can reply, Move #17 to above 15. Take out 23-49…

And then I can make the changes.

Framemaker, back when I used it, had a “Lock Numbering” and “Lock Paging” option which allowed you to set these. If you added something that should have been numbered it got some kind of suffix.

e.g.

1 Foo

2 Bar

3 Baz

Then if you removed the Bar paragraph you were left with

1 Foo

3 Baz

And if you added something after Foo you got

1 Foo

1+a Flibbit

2 Bar

3 Baz

I would settle for additons being just unnumbered, and the rest of hte list not changing if I remove a line.

If you put a