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Stepping Through Head Formats
Summary: Documents can contain any number of heading levels to denote the organization of your text. Word provides shortcuts, detailed in this tip, that easily allow you to step through different heading levels. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)
If you have a document that you want to format, you may not know exactly which type of heading you want to apply to your text. Word provides several different levels of headings, each defined by styles Heading 1 through Heading 9. You can quickly apply heading styles in your document by remembering a couple of helpful keystrokes:
- Position the insertion pointer in the paragraph you want to format as a heading.
- Press Shift+Alt+Left Arrow. The paragraph is formatted as Heading 1.
- Press Shift+Alt+Right Arrow. The paragraph is formatted as Heading 2.
- Continue pressing Shift+Alt+Right Arrow. The paragraph formatting steps through the rest of the headings, up through Heading 9.
Tip #988 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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