Trouble Removing Highlight from Bullet Points and Numbered Lists

Question

I edited a document from a client with some highlights then later decided to remove the highlights for comments instead.

For whatever reason, the document highlighted a number of bullet point and numbered list sections which I could not revert when I attempted to select the entire document and change the highlighting to 'No Fill'.

The highlighted bullet point/number lists did not allow me to select them to revert.

Searches on Google seemed to result in a ton of convoluted "[Solved]" responses on their forum which didn't fix the issue for me (or resulted in a TLDR response from my brain...):

• Google Search: open office remove highlight bullet lists
  • [Solved] Yellow highlighting won't go away
  • [Solved] Bullet highlighting will not go away.
  • [Solved] Surprise Yellow Highlighting on Bullets & Numbers
  • Permanently highlighted bullets.
  • [Solved] Oddities Involving Bullets/Outlines & Font Styles
  • [Solved] Bullet color

Seriously... what the heck!? How can this be so hard? So I decided this issue needed some serious StackOverflow help...

Version info:

Apache OpenOffice-4.1.4 AOO414m5(Build:9788) - Rev. 1811857 2017-10-11 20:12

Answer 1

So after all that...

I figured it out. But its still crazy how it's not answered very clearly in the resources above... I hope this helps someone not spend as much time on this in the future.

If you double-click the first bullet/number of the list... it appears to select the first word of the first item of the list, BUT you'll see that it also selects the list bullets/numbers with a dark gray highlight.

Now selected, you can remove the highlight from the list.

Selecting all of the document doesn't select the numbered/bulleted lists.