Greetings. I'm having a heck of a time dealing with a long document with an "outline". (Sorry, I'm not sure if word calls it "outline" or "list".) At my old job, in Word, there was a drop down box at the top with the paragraph style identified. And, I could define my own Outline styles, with the Levels formatted the way I want. My new job has none of this and I can't figure anything out.

I've got a document that has probably been copied, cut and pasted many times. The styles are all over the place. If I delete a paragraph, my next paragraph randomly changes font and type size. If I hit "tab" to go down a Level, the thing seems to choose a completely random paragraph format -- different every time.

Here's what I'd like to do:

1. create my own outline format and save it.
2. Wipe all of the styles from this document.
3. Apply my outline levels to each paragraph of this document.

Is this possible? Is there an article somewhere that explains this? I'm looked at MS Word help on Microsoft's site, and everything is too vague/general to help me.

Thanks so much.