In my example, I’m creating a new style specifically for headings in the annex. However, I don’t want every single heading within the annex to appear in the TOC. This time, though, it has ballooned from a feature article into a downloadable resource guide for would-be pet owners, so I’ll need a table of contents (TOC). What you can do is create two separate styles that look identical but that have different names. For consistency, the headings in the document should be styled the same regardless of whether they appear in the main report or in an annex.īut you may not want your annex headings to populate the table of contents. Why Create a New Style?įor example, let’s say that you have a long document consisting of a main report and several annexes. Moreover, you can base these new styles on existing styles. The next section in our Microsoft Word Styles tutorial has to do with creating your own styles. Put your cursor anywhere within the line of text that you want to style and then click on “Heading 1.” (Mine may not look like yours-I’ve styled and restyled these elements several times.)įirst, I’ll apply the “Heading 1” Style to the headings that are uppermost in the hierarchy. Let’s start applying Word Styles to our example text. You’ll also see dummy text that shows what each Style looks like. In it you’ll find little windows with labels such as “Title,” “Heading 1, “Heading 2,” “Normal,” etc. MS Word comes prepackaged with a Styles pane in the Home tab. And the formatting that you’ll apply will reflect that, from broadest (biggest) to most specific (smallest). This hierarchy of headings displays content to your reader in a logical, sequential way. In fact, any self-respecting Microsoft Word Styles tutorial should have at least a bit of information on why you should use styles in the first place: it makes reading easier! Using Word’s Built-In Styles But it’s important to spend time on this concept because it will inform your formatting choices. I’m talking about my content (the words and ideas) here, not how it’s formatted (font, color, etc.). An H1 head is general, while an H2 is more specific. An H3 is more specific than that. With each new lower level of head, the content gets more and more specific.
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