Start an enumerate list at 2 instead of 1 in LaTeX

In this tutorial, we will learn how to start enumerate list at 2 instead of 1.

We will use enumitem package to do this.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[start=2]
  \item I am the first Item
  \item I am the second Item
  \item I am the third Item
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Output:

I have done this using this line: \begin{enumerate}[start=2]

You have to set start = 2 to start the list from number 2 instead of 1.

There is another alternate way to do that.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
  \setcounter{enumi}{1}
  \item item1
  \item item2
  \item item3
  \item item4
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

Output:

Here I have used \setcounter{enumi}{1}

So the list will start from 1+1 = 2

The syntax is: \setcounter{enumi}{n-1}where n = the starting list number.