Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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Click OK to close the Customize box and apply your selections from the Bullets and

Numbering dialog box. If you plan to always use the outline in Outline view, you’re

done; otherwise, consider switching into Normal or Page Layout view for further

refinement. You’ll discover that the nice, even indenting of your various headings in

Outline view may not exist in Normal or Page Layout view. As a result, you may have

to adjust the indentation of your various heading styles to make the indenting levels

correspond in the other views.

The Document Map

The Document Map doesn’t actually look like a map; it looks more like a portable

table of contents that’s open beside you as you read. It’s identical to the left-side

table of contents list you might find in an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document, if you’ve

ever used one of those. No flipping pages—not even much scrolling (see Figure

6-12).

What’s in the Document Map

In essence, the Document Map is a navigating pane revealing just the headings in a

document. A heading, in this case, can be any text in one of Word’s built-in heading

styles, a style you’ve based on one of the built-in heading styles, or text to which

you’ve applied an outline level.

Viewing and Navigating the Document Map

To see the Document Map, choose View→Document Map. A narrow panel with its

own vertical scroll bar opens down the left side of your document window.

The Document Map doesn’t have a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom; if you can’t

read the full text across the Document Map pane, drag the narrow gray bar—the resize

bar—to widen its pane. Actually, you can read the full text of any topic in the Docu-

Figure 6-12:

When you click a heading

in the Document Map in

the left pane, you

automatically jump to that

point in your document in

the right pane. There’s no

quicker way to get from

one place to another in a

long document. Plus, when

you click the mouse

somewhere in your

document, that topic is

highlighted in the

Document Map.

The Outliner