Creating Automatically Outlined Font Styles

[michaelDC]

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?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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