View > Outline), you use Outline Tools to move and edit headings, change heading levels, and move text around. Outline View helps you manage a document’s structure and headings without getting lost in the text. Word for Office 365 Word 2019 Word 2016 Word 2013 Remember when you needed to create outlines for your writing when you were in school? Word includes outlining capabilities that can make it easy for you to organize your thoughts and improve your writing Outline View to manage headings and arrange text – Keyboard & Mouse This tip explains how this view can make your navigation tasks Outlining in Word When you need to get around a long document, a really helpful method is to use the Outline view built into Word. You have complete control over how many levels of headings are displayed in the Navigation pane, as described in this Your Document Using Outline View The Navigation pane can be a handy tool for, well, navigating through your document using the various headings that it contains. * How does Word decide what to display in Document Map?Ĭontrolling the Heading Levels Displayed in the Navigation Pane 2020 06 27 * control the number of levels that Document Map displays * use the Document Map to see where you are in a document * use the Document Map to move around your document quickly * get Document Map to display something useful It's most useful when you're working on a big document. The Document Map shows an overview of your Word document. Here are a few articles about those the Document Map in Microsoft Word 2010 08 07 Shauna Kelly Text under the heading, including subordinate heading levels (or optionally not) automagically Using the default heading styles along with either the navigation pane or Outline view you can also "reorganize" your document. Heading styles also allow you to quickly and easily auto generate a Table of Contents. Headings wont' get you back to a specific location, unless you apply a heading style to that specific location to make it easier to jump back to. One is through the "Navigation Pane" with is optionally displayed on the left side of the application Window and the other is the "Outline view". You can access the Heading styles "map" 2 ways. If you follow the MS document design approach and use heading styles to structure your document as well as other styles to control application of formatting you have a built in 'map' to the document. There are 9 special "default" styles that include built in bookmarks. But "natively" MS Word stillĪpplies formatting information using "styles". The (relatively) recent move to the XML format "DOCX" file structure has also moved to that sort of structure. The WordPerfect document file was designed from the beginning as text string with formatting codes embedded in it. You have seen the 2 Word features that recreate the "bookmark" feature. It's been "a few years" since I worked in WordPerfect (a superior tool to MS Word. Name from the dropdown, and click the Go To button - but that's a lot of clicks.) _ (Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+G to open the Find/Replace dialog to its Go To tab, click Bookmark in the list box, type or select the bookmark To go to the current location of the bookmark, open the dialog and click on the name, then click the Go To button. There can, however, be bookmarks with the same name (There can never be two bookmarks with the same name in the same document. List, and click Add - that will insert the named bookmark at the new location and automatically remove it from the old location. To set the same bookmark in another spot, just click there, click on the same name in the The first time you want to set a QuickMark-like bookmark in a document, click that spot in the text, type your chosen name in the dialog, and click the Add button. Then bookmarks that you insert will appear in the text as thick gray square brackets or, in the case of a bookmark that marks only one spot, asĪn I-beam (actually start and end brackets whose vertical strokes overlap). It's helpful to go to File > Options > Advanced > Show Document Content and check the box for "Show bookmarks". For one-click use, you can add the Bookmark button to your Quick Access Toolbar just right-click the button in the ribbon and click "Add to The Bookmark button in the Links group on the Insert ribbon opens the Bookmark dialog, where you create bookmarks. Word doesn't have a dedicated bookmark like WordPerfect's, but you can decide on a name of a bookmark you'll use for that purpose.