Using List Styles

Word allows you to create custom lists using the List Styles feature. You can easily create and reuse lists of any kind, both ordered lists (such as the alphabetical and numerical lists available in Outline Numbering) and unordered lists (such as lists that use different symbols or icons).

Word provides three predefined list styles:

  • 1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1 (for purely numeric sequences)

  • 1 / a / i (for sequences mixing numbers and letters)

  • Article / Section (for sequences such as are commonly used in legal documents)

Each of these list styles corresponds to options you've already seen in the Outline Numbered tab of the Bullets and Numbering dialog box. To use one of these sequences, do the following:

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