One of the most useful features of Microsoft Word is its
flexible style system. Using Word, your words can be written any number of
fonts and font sizes. If you decided you need to change the style or size of
what you have written, you have a choice: you can either change the words
themselves (by selecting them and picking another font or font size), or you
can change the font of the style that is used with your all your words. Knowing
about Word styles can help you to work more efficiently.
When you begin writing a document, you typically write words
with the ‘Normal’ style. Word also provides a set of heading styles. These
heading styles are linked to a number of other bits of Word functionality. Most
notably:
The Word document navigation view, and
The Word table of contents creation tool.
Whenever you create a heading for a section, apply a Word
heading to that session. If you then open up the document navigation view
(which you can find in the view menu), you will see a clickable summary of your
document.
When you have edited your document, and you need a table of
contents, click on the references menu, and then on the table of contents
button. This button will give you a couple of options to choose from. This
references menu hints at some of the more advanced features in Word, including the
ability to provide cross references between sections (which avoids you from
having continually figure out what the correct page number should be if you add
or remove a bit of text), and a way to define entries for an index.
Further guidance
The following pages from Microsoft offer some further guidance:
Using Word headings
One of the most useful features of Microsoft Word is its flexible style system. Using Word, your words can be written any number of fonts and font sizes. If you decided you need to change the style or size of what you have written, you have a choice: you can either change the words themselves (by selecting them and picking another font or font size), or you can change the font of the style that is used with your all your words. Knowing about Word styles can help you to work more efficiently.
When you begin writing a document, you typically write words with the ‘Normal’ style. Word also provides a set of heading styles. These heading styles are linked to a number of other bits of Word functionality. Most notably:
Whenever you create a heading for a section, apply a Word heading to that session. If you then open up the document navigation view (which you can find in the view menu), you will see a clickable summary of your document.
When you have edited your document, and you need a table of contents, click on the references menu, and then on the table of contents button. This button will give you a couple of options to choose from. This references menu hints at some of the more advanced features in Word, including the ability to provide cross references between sections (which avoids you from having continually figure out what the correct page number should be if you add or remove a bit of text), and a way to define entries for an index.
Further guidance
The following pages from Microsoft offer some further guidance:
A further resource that looks to be useful is this useful summary sheet from the University of Aberdeen: Working with long documents.
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