Use the built-in heading styles for the headings.
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Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles?
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There are other methods that could be used, but they are kludges - work-arounds for when the built-in heading styles can't be used.
Note, you can format the built-in heading styles to look like what you are using.