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Google has implemented an option that is a great alternative to the Table of Contents! Many people felt (especially with LONG documents) that a Table of Contents (TOC) added a lot of clutter to the top of the document, even while it provided needed links to the document sections.  (If you don't know what the Table of Contents is or want to know more about it, check out my post  Google Documents - Using a Table of Contents .)  Like in this example - Google has now added another option to provide those links without it being added to the top of the document - it is the Outline option.  This is found under the Tools Menu - Once you select it, an outline is displayed on the left side of the document - What is displayed?  Well, like the TOC you have to utilize the formatting for headings & titles rather than set them manually & individually- (A note - you can always customize the color/font/size of the headings by setting that particular ...

One of the biggest reasons I am given that people do not use headings in their Google Documents is they want to customize the look of them.  However, creating your own custom heading styles in a Goggle Document is pretty easy - once you know how.  It just takes one step beyond what people already do in formatting their first heading, yet can save a ton of time if there are multiple headings throughout the document. Create Custom Headings: 1. Highlight the first heading and format to as you wish it to look (you can set font, font size, style, spacing, etc).  Here in my example, I have changed the font, enlarged it to 18 pt, bolded and centered it. 2. Go to the formatting toolbar, select the dropdown that says "Normal text," scroll down to "Heading 1" and select "Update 'Heading 1' to match" (or another heading of your choosing) 3.  Whenever you want to apply the same heading style, you can just highlight the text, go to the formattin...