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If you use defined styles, and you have organized your document so you use the headings defined by Word, you can use the Outline view to navigate through your document. For instance, let's assume you have a large document and you want to quickly jump to a location that you figure is about three-fourths of the way through the document. You know the heading for the text you want to find, but you can't quite remember the exact wording (therefore, you can't use the Find command). Here's how you could use Outline view to find the area:
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2019-09-25 08:44:51
David Stoner
I find Outline view inconsistent and frustrating, no doubt partially due to my incomplete understanding of it. But I prefer using the Navigation Pane (formerly called Document Map, I think), which lets me continue viewing my document in Print view while still being able to navigate it using headings, similar to Outline view.
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