Unable to customize outline levels

[Mike Blyth]

Using Word 2007

Problem: The outline level control in the paragraph dialog is greyed out for
all the heading styles, so I cannot customize them.

Example: Heading 1, style type paragraph, based on "normal". Outline level
is 1 and cannot be changed.

What I really want: The top-level divisions are chapters, and I want to
assign the "Chapter" style to level 1, Heading 1 to level 1, and so on. I
could work around it by calling chapter titles "Heading 1" but that seems
tacky.

 

[Stefan Blom]

The outline levels of the built-in headings cannot be modified. Why do you
want to do that? If it is for the purpose of creating a TOC, note that you
can assign a custom *TOC level* to each of the heading styles, when creating
the TOC. See the "Using the TOC Options" section in the article at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/TOCTips.htm.

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[Mike Blyth]

I wanted to do it simply to make the style names more intuitive -- "Chapter"
instead of heading 1, then heading 1 below it. Since I can't change the
levels, I'll just go ahead and use heading 1 for the chapter titles. Thanks.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Although you cannot rename a heading style, you can specify an additional
name, an alias, for it: In the Modify Style dialog box, in the "Name" box,
add the list separator (usually a comma for English versions of Word) and
then type the alias.

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