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Headings are a great way to tell people what they need to know quickly. Learn how to use styles for headings to make your documents easier to navigate.

To add a heading style

  1. Type the text you want into a Word document.

  2. Select a sentence that you want to add a header to.

  3. Select Home > Styles (or press Alt+H, then L), and then select the heading you want, such as the Heading 1 button.

Word applies a font and color change to help make it clear that this is a title -- the Heading 1 of the article. The next heading type is a Heading 2.

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