Yet another problem with a new edition of an Office app, in this case Word in Office 2013.



I love the outline feature and use it constantly. Indenting each subheading helps me see how my article is developing, IF and only if, the indentation shows up indented on the screen.

I use the 1; 1.1; 1.1.1. format. Like so:

Heading 1
---1.1 sub-topic
------1.1.1. sub-sub topic
Currently it displays, all vertically...like this;

Heading 1
1.1 Sub-topic
1.1.1. Sub-sub topic
etc.

Why do M'Soft "improved(?)" features require needing to re-learn with each new Office release.

If you are using the built-in headings you will see paragraphs indented in Outline view (View tab | Outline view). Heading 1 paragraphs will be displayed at level 1 (no indent), Heading 2 paragraphs will display at level 2 (indented compared to Heading 2), etc. Actually, any paragraph to which you assign an "Outline level" other than "Body Text" will be indented in Outline view. To assign outline levels, use the Paragraph dialog box (you can display the dialog box by right-clicking a text paragraph and choosing Paragraph from the context menu).

If you mean that you always want to display and print indents with numbered paragraphs, specify indents as you set up your outline/multilevel list. For an existing list, place the insertion point in the first level 1 item (the first Heading 1 paragraph of the document assuming that this is a list of headings) and then click Home tab | Multilevel List | Define New Multilevel List. See http://shaunakelly.com/word/numberin...g20072010.html.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Supplementing Stefan's answer...

Also, look at the Navigation Pane (under the view menu). It indents different outline levels.

If you have assigned outline levels to your paragraph styles, they will indent in Outline view and the Navigation Pane, even if not indented in the printed version or printed copy.

Like Stefan, I refer you to the article How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly.

Any new release of software should include some changes. I wish that MS did a better job of documenting its programs and brought the help files up to the standards of those in Word 2003. I wish for a lot of things; at my age, I have stopped expecting those wishes to come true, though. Every once in a while, I am pleasantly surprised.

This, though, is not a change. Outline view, I believe was improved somewhat in Word 2013. However, the indenting of levels in Outline view has always depended on different outline levels being assigned through paragraph styles. In this respect, Word 2013 is not different from Word 97.

See alsoOutline View in Microsoft Word - Intermediate Users Guide to Word.

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As Charles wrote, Outline view hasn't changed much over the years. It is still based on "Outline levels" as seen in the Paragraph dialog box, applied to text directly via the dialog box or indirectly via a paragraph style.

Also, if you want indents that show and print, make all changes in the multilevel list dialog box (you can't use the standard paragraph indentation settings for this).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional