Chapter 12. Outlines
Outlines
An outline is a great tool for organizing ideas. By grouping topics and subtopics under main headings, you can set up the logical flow of a lengthy or complex document. A well-prepared outline is like a document “skeleton”—a solid framework on which the document can be built.
An outline has two components (Figure 1):
Figure 1. Part of an outline in Outline view.
Headings are topic names. Various levels of headings (1 through 9) are arranged in a hierarchy to organize and develop relationships among them.
Body text provides information about each heading.
Microsoft Word’s Outline view makes it easy to build and refine outlines. ...
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