![]() The dialog box talks about creating PDF bookmarks using ‘Headings’. Before 'One' in the 'Enter formatting' box, type 'Chapter. One example is the options available when saving to the PDF format. At Level 1, in the 'Number style' dropdown, choose One, Two, Three. Headings don’t necessarily have an outline level (but they usually will).Ĭonfusion arises because Microsoft uses the term ‘Headings’ when they should say ‘Outline Level’.Outline Levels don’t have to be headings.‘Heading 1’ style has outline level 1, ‘Heading 2’ style has outline level 2 and so on. The in-built Heading styles are linked to matching outline levels. It’s better known as the Navigation Pane or Outline View. Outline Levels are Word’s way of organizing a document into the ‘tree’ structure that Microsoft calls an ‘interactive outline’. When making the custom heading styles, setting the Outline Level is often (and understandably) overlooked.Īccording to Microsoft you can apply ‘Heading’ styles to fill in the Navigation Pane – but that’s not entirely true. This problem is most likely to happen if you’ve created custom heading styles and by-passed the in-built ‘Heading n’ styles. A Table of Contents can be built without the essential part of the Navigation Pane – the Outline Level. So they should also appear in the Navigation Pane too? ![]() The document has headings, you can see them in the Table of Contents on right. Do the same for the rest of the levels (heading 2, heading 3, etc.) in your document.Normally the Table of Contents and Navigation Pane are almost the same. As a result, all the Heading 1s in your document will be linked to default heading 1. From the drop-down list, click option Update Heading 1 to Match Selection. Click the down arrow button on the extreme right. Locate the heading level 1 in the Styles pane.Place mouse cursor over it. Keeping your heading 1 selected in the document, click Alt+O+S. Once you are done with establishing connections between the heading levels in the document to default heading levels, apply the same to all heading 1s, all heading 2s, and so on in the document. Similarly, restore connections for the rest of the heading levels (heading 2, 3, …etc.) in your document. Apply numbering to your paragraphs via the Multilevel list button on. Click heading “1” and subsequently from the drop-down list Link level to style , select Heading 1 style. This guide describes how to hide the numbering on the Heading 1 paragraph style. Assume that these are the heading levels in your document. ![]() In the dialog box, you can see the heading levels as 1, 2, 3,….9 on extreme left under the label “Click level to modify”. We will restore the links using the Define New Multilevel List dialog box.Ĥ. ![]() At this point, understand that the main reasons for the numbered headings going out of order are due to the missing links between heading levels that you have applied and the corresponding default heading styles of Word. The dialog box expands with additional fields. From the dialog box, click button More (available on the left bottom corner). Define New Multilevel List dialog box appears.ģ. From the drop-down list, click option Define New Multilevel List. Select the first heading level and then from the Word Main menu, under the tab Home, within the group Paragraph, click the Multilevel List icon. In your current document, where the list numbering has gone wrong:ġ. ![]() I am assuming, you already know how to create Multilevel list in Word (if not, learn here: ). In this article, we’re discussing a few tricks to quickly fix and streamline messy multilevel numbered heading as quickly as possible. Documents with hundreds of pages and multiple heading levels are particularly difficult to manage in Word. For many, creating and fixing multilevel lists in MS Word is a nightmare. Go to Home > Paragraph and click the drop-down arrow next to the Multilevel list numbering icon. ![]()
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