Modify or create headings and other styles - Microsoft Support
Applies To. Styles in Word allow you to choose the look for headings, regular text, and even callouts or other custom text needs. You'll be able to choose the font, size, color, paragraph alignment, spacing, and more.
Add a heading - Microsoft Support
Headings can make text stand out and help people scan your document. The simplest way to add headings is to use heading styles. Select the text you want to use as a heading.
Customize or create new styles - Microsoft Support
You can change the formatting (such as font size, color, and text indentation) in styles applied to titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on. You can also select formatted text in your document to create a new style in the Styles gallery.
Video: Improve accessibility with heading styles - Microsoft …
Headings are a great way to tell people what they need to know quickly. Learn how to use styles for headings to make your documents easier to navigate. To add a heading style. Type the text you want into a Word document. Select a sentence that you want to add a header to.
Collapse or expand parts of a document - Microsoft Support
You can quickly add an outline level and make part of your document collapsible by adding a heading using Word's built-in styles. After applying the heading style, you’ll see a small triangle when you move your cursor over the heading.
Configure headers and footers for different sections of a …
Double click the header or footer in each section and choose styles or add content. Select Close Header and Footer or press Esc to exit. For more on headers and footers, see Headers and footers in Word. Set up headers and footers to provide different content for …
Number your headings - Microsoft Support
You can apply a numbering scheme to the headings in your document by using multilevel-list templates and built-in heading styles in Word (Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on).
Use the Navigation pane in Word - Microsoft Support
To go to a page or a heading in a Word document without scrolling, use the Navigation pane. To open the Navigation pane, press Ctrl+F, or select the View tab and choose Navigation Pane.
Apply styles - Microsoft Support
You can use pre-defined styles like Heading, Title, and Normal so that each heading level (or other style) always has the same font and size every time it's used in your document—and if you decide later that you want to customize the style, your change will …
Insert a table of contents - Microsoft Support
Word uses the headings in your document to build an automatic table of contents that can be updated when you change the heading text, sequence, or level. Click where you want to insert the table of contents—usually near the beginning of the document.
Format or customize a table of contents - Microsoft Support
Go to References > Table of Contents. Select Custom table of contents. Use the settings to show, hide, and align page numbers, add or change the tab leader, set formats, and specify how many levels of headings to show. For more info, see Custom table of contents .