2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Creative Outlining with Word 2007

Although many of us learned about outlines for the first time in elementary school, working with outlines in the daily business world doesn’t have to conform to any rigid rules that may be floating around in the back of your head. The idea of an outline is just to get your ideas down in a way that gives you a structure for your document and helps you ensure you’re covering the major points you want to include in your document. If you find yourself stuck in the planning stage of your document, try some of these techniques to get the ideas flowing.

• The process outline. Does your document lend itself to a series of steps? For example, if you’re writing an article about managing an international project, plan out what ...