Newbie Question Regarding Fill

[marjimsha]

Greetings, Illustrator Community!

Just finished lengthy tutorial, and am well on my way, however I am unable to figure out how to make the fill disappear from this graphic. Provided as a template which I am obliged to use, it was originally filled with a gradient.  I am trying to remove the gradient so that I only see an outline.  Even when I create a new layer and draw a new outline, it fills with the gradient.  The second img is how it looked originally.  The first image is as far as I got, as I tried removing the colors of the gradient one by one, but when i remove the last color, the outline disappears!  Thank you in advance...

Windows 10

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[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Can you select it and then open Window > Appearance and make a screenshot?

[marjimsha]

Sure!  Here it is...

[Met1]

No selection. Try again. (Click on it, then do the screen shot)

[marliton]

Hi. Please select the object before making the screenshot.

[marjimsha · Accepted solution]

Thank you!  Sure enough, I was able to remove the fill in the Appearance Panel.  Thank you!!

[Met1]

Please uncheck my message as being correct, it's in reply to your unselected screenshot, it has nothing to do with the solution.