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.
Modify or create headings and other styles - Microsoft Support
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.
Format or customize a table of contents - Microsoft Support
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.
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). Important: Make sure you're using built-in heading styles in your document.
Use the Navigation pane in Word - Microsoft Support
Browse by headings. If you’ve applied heading styles to the headings in the body of your document, those headings appear in the Navigation pane. The Navigation pane doesn’t display headings that are in tables, text boxes, or headers or footers. In …
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.
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.
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.
Collapse or expand parts of a document - Microsoft Support
To collapse or expand all the headings in your document, right-click the heading and click Expand/Collapse > Expand All Headings or Collapse All Headings. When you close and reopen a document, the headings will be expanded by default.
Configure headers and footers for different sections of a document
Click or tap the page at the beginning of a section. Select Layout > Breaks > Next Page. Double-click the header or footer on the first page of the new section. Click Link to Previous to turn it …