Changing Body Text to a Heading

Word contains a powerful outlining system that allows you to make changes to document structure quickly. You do this in Outline view, which is most easily invoked by clicking on the Outline view button on the status bar. When you enter Outline view, Word displays an Outline toolbar at the top of the document window if you are using a version of Word prior to Word 2007. If you are using Word 2007, Word displays a new tab on the ribbon—the Outlining tab. You use the controls on either the toolbar or the tab to change indentation levels for your outline, as you've learned in other issues of WordTips.

Besides headings, you may have body text within your document. You may wish to change a paragraph of body text to a heading. You can do this in any of these ways, after positioning the insertion point on the paragraph you want to change:

• Using the mouse, click on the Promote tool. This is the one that looks like a left arrow.
• Apply a heading level style.
• Using the mouse, drag the body text indicator (the small square to the left of the body text paragraph) to the left.