The ability to collapse and expand content in your document is based on its outline level. You can quickly add an outline level and make part of your document collapsible by adding a heading using Word's built-in styles.

When you enter your first top-level outline entry, Word automatically formats it with a built-in style, Heading 1. As you continue to build your outline by adding subordinate and body levels, Word in turn continues to apply the appropriate built-in style to each heading and body text entry.

Don’t change fonts, use Quick Styles. You might format a document while you type, or change fonts, font size, or colors for things like headings. Here’s a better way to get your document looking smart: Quick Styles. Give it a try by clicking the Style buttons in the ribbon on the HOME tab.

Word Options (Advanced) Word for Microsoft 365 Word 2021 Word 2019 Word 2016 Word 2013 More... Use advanced Word options to customize editing tasks, document display, printing preferences, and more. To choose your advanced Word options, select File > Options, and on the left pane, select Advanced.

If you want formatting choices that are not available from the built-in styles and themes available in Word, you can modify an existing style and customize it to suit your needs. You can change the formatting (such as font size, color, and text indentation) in styles applied to titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on.

Add an outline, shadow, reflection, or glow text effect. Change the look of your text or WordArt by changing its fill or outline, or by adding an effect, such as a shadow, reflection, or glow. Select your text or WordArt. On the Home tab, select Text Effects. Choose the effect you want.

Suppress line numbers from a paragraph or paragraphs Select the paragraph or paragraphs. On the Home tab in Word, or on the FORMAT TEXT tab in an Outlook email, select the Paragraph Dialog Box launcher . Select the Line and Page Breaks tab. Under Formatting, select Suppress line numbers. Select OK. Remove hyphens from a paragraph or paragraphs

You can use section breaks to change the layout or formatting of pages in your document. To change formatting in a document, insert a section break at the beginning of where you want the change. Set up the formatting change just past the new section break.

Alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraph: left-aligned text, right-aligned text, centered text, or justified text, which is aligned evenly along the left and right margins. For example, in a paragraph that is left-aligned (the most common alignment), the left edge of the paragraph is flush with the left ...