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If you have a document that you want to format, you may not know exactly which type of heading you want to apply to your text. Word provides several different levels of headings, each defined by styles Heading 1 through Heading 9. You can quickly apply heading styles in your document by remembering a couple of helpful keystrokes:
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2014-09-29 10:18:56
Jenny
You can also right click on the heading in the navigation pane and promote, demote, move the section, delete the section, etc. If you promote a heading, all the ones below also promote. Very handy.
2014-09-29 01:43:22
Andrew
Thanks for the tip.
I use alt-ctrl-1 for heading 1, alt-ctrl-2 for heading 2 and alt-ctrl-3 for heading 3. However, it doesn't work beyond heading 3.
2014-09-27 11:35:31
Aprile
Once you have your heading styles set up, you can tab to next level or shift tab for previous level too.
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