By default, when you create a numbered or bulleted list in Word, you can press Tab and Shift+Tab to increase or decrease the numbering level:

When you type numbers or some special symbols (see examples below) in your document, Word automatically creates numbered or bulleted lists. Sometimes you spend a lot of time to remove automatic changes in your document. However, you can easily stop creation of bulleted or numbered lists in your document.

In some cases it is needed to create a multilevel list with different features, for example to show numbers from right to left.

You can create standard numbered and bulleted lists by typing in a way that triggers the AutoFormat feature to apply list formatting.