MS Office 2013




I'm certain that this has been discussed to death (yet after 20min of surfing, I've found nothing); apologizes in advance. (If anyone can simply re-direct me...)


I have a document in a multilevel list format (and it works well: tab denotes a level; alt-tab promotes...)


HOWEVER, when I view it in OUTLINE...
everything is a "BODY TEXT" (although there are multiple levels being used)
I could convert each line -individually- to an outline level...that would take a lot more effort than I ought to have to expend...


(thought that outline levels would already be there from the multi-level list, but not (?))


there has to be a simpler way (?)
any suggestions will be greatly appreciated in advance,


m.

Outline levels are different to multi-level lists

Outline levels (as seen in the Outline view) are configurable in the Format Paragraph dialog and are typically associated with Headings 1 through 9. Those headings can also have multilevel lists applied to them if numbering is required but this is independent of the outline level. You can also assign the outline levels to other styles if you wish.

Multi-level lists can have 9 levels of indentation but you will need to associate styles with each level if you want to have those styles show up in the outline view.

The simplest fix is to apply headings to the paragraphs you want to see in outline.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

See How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Ribbon Versions of Word by Shauna Kelly.


If you follow her directions and attach numbering to the heading styles you will have what you want. The formatting of the heading styles can be changed to suit.

big thnx !!!