Creating / Saving Multilevel Lists / Styles

In my header:

I have these styles when opened

And my header looks like this:

I do not reallt see a place st save the save / lists, etc.  I take it the .dotm ot .dotx won't work?

And on a side note if I was to take a change to the styles, is should (hopefully) ask me is I want to save the changes the template?   And won't mess with the doc?

I guess basically one would have two files opened at the save time, and Word 2013 will know the difference?

• You can save the current document as a template (.dotx) if you want the styles to be available in new documents based on a specific template.
• If your document is already based on a specific template, right-click each style (in the Quick Style gallery or Styles task pane), choose Modify, and select the radio button for "New documents based on this template." Then click OK.
• If your document is based on the Normal template, and you want these numbered styles to be available in all new Blank Documents, then again use Modify to change the radio button to "New documents based on this template."

I had one that but it seems to take away the lists.

I tried to open the .dotm and .dotx and start my document but I need to make changes to the Multilevel List and Styles.  The only option is create a new one. 

The Multilevel Lists seem to disappear (which is under current list) and the numbering library seems to become active.

If your list is a multilevel "List Style" (made by clicking Define New List Style), it was named and saved as a List Style when you created it.  List Styles were new to W2007.

If is a "Multilevel List" (made by clicking "Define new Multilevel List"), it cannot be saved or modified as a list. Whenever you change a multilevel list (Word called this "customizing" in W2003), Word creates a new Multilevel List.

Only paragraph and character styles appear in the Home tab's Styles Gallery.  List Styles appear in the List Styles section of the multilevel list library.  And Table Styles appear in the Table Styles gallery on the Table Tools > Design tab.  All styles appear in the manage styles dialog.

I am terribly frustrated.  I define my multilevel numbered lists, linking them to Styles, and can't seem to get the Styles to keep from changing.

Is there not a way to SAVE the styles somehow?  My defined settings mean nothing to MS Word 2013.

AND ... though I defined my multilevel list, it does not display for me to go back to make any modifications. ???

Have spent 5 days trying to get a document to behave ... trying to create a template for future use ...

Yowza.

Also, selection of the "New Documents based on this template" will not remain selected.  Is that because I haven't yet saved this doc as a template?

If you did not specifically create a new template, all of the changes that you have been making will have been made to the Normal.dotm template.

You should start by saving a blank document as a template and then with that as the active document, follow the procedure in the article "How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Microsoft Word document" on the following page of the Late Shauna Kelly's website:

This may be new in Office 2013, but I am able to add new list styles to my list library. Hopefully this will help someone.

After you Create a new Multilevel list, or any list, it will appear in the "Lists in current Document" section of the dropdown. To save it to the Library, right click the list you just created and select "Save list in Library" That is all that needs to be done.

I have deleted most of the prepared lists and added my own to the bullets, numbering, and multilevel lists this way, and they all appear in my normal template when I open a new doc.