If you check the Paragraph dialog for Word’s built-in Heading 1 style, you’ll see it is set to Outline level ‘Level 1’, and Heading 2 is at Level 2 etc. As you can see below, the Outline level of the Subtitle style I have selected is Body Text, so the style won’t show up as a heading (which is fine, in this case).

Check the Outline level of your style in the Paragraph dialog box. If you have defined your own heading styles, make sure that Word knows how they fit into the document heading hierarchy. (If you aren’t sure, check my post What Word style is your text formatted in?) If necessary – for example, if they’ve been manually formatted but are all still actually in Normal style – I’ll go through the report and apply Heading 1, Heading 2 etc. When I start editing a report, pretty much my first step is to make sure that the text is styled using Word Styles, especially the headings. Reorganise in the Navigation pane (PC only).Use Word Styles to restructure your document.Use Word Styles to navigate around your document.Here we’ll see how Word Styles can help you:

Word Styles offer more than simply and consistently formatting text they give you lots of power in organising your whole document.įor those new to using Styles, you might want to check out the introduction in my previous post: What are Word Styles and how do you use them? In the next few posts I’ll look at some of the most useful functions of Word Styles.

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