

When it comes to naming a document, composition, or book with a title style, it is best to choose a name that accurately and succinctly describes the contents. Heading 1 is usually used for the main title of the document, Heading 2 for its subheadings, Heading 3 for its subsections, and so on. I have now updated my template so that the headings behave properly.Ī more thorough treatment of page breaks and other pagination tricks can be found here.You can select the Heading style that fits the content best. You can repeat the process for Level 2 and Level 3 headings, if needed. Now everything you have marked as a Level 1 heading will stay with its accompanying paragraph. Select Update Heading 1 to Match Selection. Now right-click Heading 1 on the Styles portion of the Home tab on the ribbon. I select the heading, and click the format button in the Paragraph section. I use Word 2010 for Windows so your experience might be slightly different. In Microsoft Word, there is an option to keep a paragraph on the same page as the next paragraph. Its main cost was a bit of worry each time I finished a report.Īll these years it never occurred to me to ask whether Microsoft engineers had anticipated this problem! It did not take much time to fix the problems, but it was a pain to re-paginate the report if I made future edits. Until now, I always had to check the document before printing to make sure that no headings were alone on the last line of the page, with its accompanying paragraph on the next page. When I write psychological evaluation reports, I start with a template that has headings for the various sections.
