MS Word; How to identify a List Style, so it can be removed

Hi MS Word Community,


In a nutshell ... how can a List Style be identified, so it can be removed?


My document has a number of styles are collectively associated with a List Style. (I want to remove the List Style, so that the numbering that's added by the List Style disappears).


So ... here's where I'm stuck. How do I identify the name of a List Style? Once I can identify it (in the Recommended tab of the style manager), I know how to remove it. The problem is ... if I know the name of a Style, I don't know how to identify the List Style with which it is associated.


For example, if I examine one of the styles that's part of that association (via Modify Style), I don't see anything that tells me what List Style (or List Styles) it's associated with.


Can anyone help?


Thanks in advance... Mark

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List styles are also present on the Edit tab of the Manage Styles dialog box and you can delete them (or access them for editing) from there.

To display the dialog box, click the Manage Styles icon in the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S).

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Note that Word includes a few built-in list styles, and these can't be deleted (see the screen shot above). However, you can delete your custom list styles.

Not all multilevel lists have an associated list style. It depends on how the multilevel list was originally created.

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Custom List Styles are displayed in Home>Paragraph>Multilevel List. under the List Styles heading. Right-click on a custom list style and choose Modify. Then choose Format>Numbering. Click on the More button. The linked styles for each level appear in the Link level to style dropdown.

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