How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 5 - How to Modify Chapter Heading 1

In the previous post on How to create chapter heading (Step 4 in Creating Your Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010), we have learned how to apply Heading styles to major chapters most likely found in your thesis or other academic documents. This includes Introduction, Literature Reviews, and soon. We have created a document called Academic Document as a learning tools. But, so fa we have applied Heading styles that are provided by default in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. It is unlikely that academic documents such thesis or research reports will use those default Heading styles as such.

So how to modify them?

Now in this post will learn how to customize the default Heading styles. We will now start with Heading 1:

1. Open your document called Academic Document that we have created before in the previous post. If you have not downloaded it yet, you can do so now.
2. Bring your mouse cursor to either Introduction, Literature Reviews, Materials and Methods, Result and Discussion, or Conclusion. All these have been associated with Heading 1 style.
3. In Style panel, you can see that Heading 1 is selected (sorrounded by a box) meaning that your text is currently having been associated Heading 1 style. Click the small arrow on the right of that sorrounding box and then click Modify to bring up Modify style window

4. Under Formatting, select Automatic for font color
5. Bring to center by clicking its icon
6. Select Automatic update
7. Click OK to see how it looks.

Modifying Heading 1 paragraph

1. Click Format button and the Paragraph to bring up the window as seen on the right.
2. For Spacing, select 0 pt for Before and 24 pt for After
3. Click OK.
4. Save your modified document with a named, let us call it Academic Document 1.

You can modify Heading 2 and 3 in the same way as above steps. But, we have another post explaining about this.

You can download the Academic Document 1 I created myself.

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