Creating Automatically Outlined Font Styles

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I am creating a document with several customized font styles. This document
is written in a sort of outline style with a table of contents, major
sections, and several subsections.

I know there is some way to modify my font styles so each time I write
something in a certain font that text appears in the document with the
appropriate number leading the text.

For example, if my document is structured like this:

Main topic title
sub-topic title
sub-topic title

Main topic title
sub-topic title
sub-topic title

When I input this text into the document using the created styles it will
automatically appear in the document with numbering as such:

1 Main topic title
1.1 sub-topic title
1.2 sub-topic title

2 Main topic title
2.1 sub-topic title
2.2 sub-topic title

and if I input new sections or sub-sections into the document, the font
style used will determine the numbering designated to the title of that new
section/sub-section and the numbering of all sections/sub-section following
that new text will automatically adjust itself to the new numbering.

I've seen this done before, but I cannot figure out how to set this up in MS
Word 2007.

Can anyone help me, please?
 
You need to define paragraph styles using the font formatting you want and
then assign them to outline levels in a multilevel list. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html for the
general principles. Applying the appropriate styles applies both the
numbering and the font formatting in one go, and you can promote/demote
levels using built-in shortcut keys.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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