Navigation pane is displaying bullets as well as headings

[Ulodesk]

In one document, all the bulleted text is showing up along with the headings. This happened to the TOC yesterday, but I corrected it by deleting and recreating the custom TOC. The bullet styles are custom, created properly in a list style, and this has not happened before. I tried reimporting the bullet styles, including the list style, from the template, but this has not affected the navigation pane.

Any ideas?

[Charles Kenyon]

You have outline levels attached to your bullet styles?
How to control bullets in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly

Try attaching to lower-level heading styles like 7-9 and they will not show up in the navigation pane and you can keep them out of your TOC if you want.
Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly

Understanding Styles in Microsoft Word

[Ulodesk]

Charles, thank you for your reply. The bullet styles, like headings in templates I create, were created by following Shauna's pages, with levels, in a list style. We already use levels 7 & 8 of the built-in headings, leaving only 5 and 9 to accommodate a (usually) three-level (occasionally four; not my choice) bullet structure.

Perhpas I didn't make clear, that this one document, hosted on SharePoint, is the only time I have seen this happen, though I don't use the nav pane, myself. If I create a new Word doc, the behavior is not replicated. The document in question is a 200-page proposal doc, with several writers. I suspected that the problem is some sort of corruption, unless you're telling me that this behavior is normal (which doesn't cohere with my experience with list styles, Outline view, etc.), and may perhaps be fixed with the usual copying minus final paragraph.

[Charles Kenyon]

As far as I know, the only styles that appear in the Navigation pane are the built-in heading styles, and styles based on them.

Even if defined using the multi-level list dialog, I can't get them to show up, unless attached to heading styles or their derivatives.

You need to find the styles that are doing this (if styles were used) and create new bullet styles (or use the ones you already have). You can use the replace feature for this.

[Charles Kenyon]

I think it is simply a confusion of styles, perhaps someone using one of the heading styles instead of one of your list styles and then [perhaps directly] applying bullets to it.

[Ulodesk]

Hi, Charles. Indeed, some style overlay had managed to be applied to not only some bullets but some subheads, and even one caption, all of which have individual styles -- not based on Normal, of course, or on headings. Just Word having one of those moments (or SharePoint causing problems). Anyway, I have cleared the overlays and the nav pane is back to normal.
Thank you.