The Role of Heading Styles and Outline Levels in Outlining
To understand outlining, you must understand three concepts: heading styles, outline levels, and body text.
Heading styles are built-in styles that Word provides for each level of heading in your document, from Heading 1 to Heading 9. These styles don't just carry formatting information; they also carry information about where the text fits in the hierarchy of your document. In other words, Word recognizes that Heading 1 is a first-level heading, Heading 2 is a second-level heading, and so forth.
Outline levels provide a way for you to give the same hierarchical information for paragraphs in your outline that are not headings. For example, you may have a quotation that you want to treat ...
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