Remove List Formatting

Microsoft Word 2003 Lists

Summary: Remove list formatting from a partial or entire list in Word 2003 documents.

After creating a list in Microsoft Word 2003 and later editing the document, you may find that the information presented in a list no longer needs to be so. Perhaps your list has shrunk from ten to three items and items can be presented instead in paragraph form. Or, maybe your list items need to become page headings.

1. Select the list in that you wish to remove formatting. Note that you can select the entire list, or just a few items - Word will automatically restart list numbering as necessary.

For example, assume the following document:

1. Item
2. Item
3. Item
4. Item
5. Item
6. Item

2. Click the numbered list toolbar button if the list is a numbered list, or click the bulleted list toolbar button if the list is a bulleted list.

In the mini-screenshot to the right, the numbered list toolbar button is highlighted. Directly to the right of that button is the bulleted list toolbar button. Note that depending on your toolbar configuration, button placement may vary.

Back to the above example - if only the third or fourth items are highlighted and the numbered list toolbar button is selected, the reformatted document would look like so. Notice the renumbering that Word does automatically:

1. Item
2. Item
Item
Item
3. Item
4. Item