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MS Office Forum / Word / Numbering / March 2008Unable to customize outline levels
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. 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.  SignatureStefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP > Using Word 2007 > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > could work around it by calling chapter titles "Heading 1" but that seems > tacky. 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. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > could work around it by calling chapter titles "Heading 1" but that seems > > tacky. 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. SignatureStefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP >I wanted to do it simply to make the style names more intuitive -- >"Chapter" [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > seems >> > tacky.
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