From the drop-down list, click option Define New Multilevel List. Select the first heading level and then from the Word Main menu, under the tab Home, within the group Paragraph, click the Multilevel List icon. In your current document, where the list numbering has gone wrong:ġ. I am assuming, you already know how to create Multilevel list in Word (if not, learn here: ). In this article, we’re discussing a few tricks to quickly fix and streamline messy multilevel numbered heading as quickly as possible. Documents with hundreds of pages and multiple heading levels are particularly difficult to manage in Word. For many, creating and fixing multilevel lists in MS Word is a nightmare.