How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 6 - How to Modify Heading 2 and 3 in Word 2007 or 2010

In a previous post entitled How to Create Chapter Heading (Step 4 of How to Create a Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010), we have learned how to apply default Heading styles available in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. And we have created Academic Document, a Word 2007 or 2010 document showing the result of the process of using the default Heading Style. Because the default Heading styles are unlikely to be applied as such in most academic documents, we then have learned How to Modify Heading 1 (Step 5 of How to Create a Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010) and we re-saved the Academic Document with a new document called Academic Document 1.


As our learning process continues, we will now learn how to modify Heading 2 and 3.

1. Open your Academic Document 1
2. Position your mouse cursor on text applying Heading 2 such as Background, Research Objective, etc. and modify Heading 2 style through Style panel. Go back to previous post in which it was explained how to modify Heading 1.
3. In the Modify style, select Automatic for font color and select Automatic update
4. For Paragraph (click Format button to find it), set Auto for Before and 12 for After (both are under Spacing)
5. Click OK
6. Once more, OK. For Heading 3, following the above steps for Heading 2, except that it set to font size 12 pt which is 1 point smaller that 13 pt set for Heading 2.
7. Save your document with a new name called Academic Document 2.

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