If you have Word 2013 or earlier versions in your computer you can use from this feature of Word.

By this, you can read or manage your text more easily.

There isn't any way at this time to collapse headings in document outline. To help influence future feature changes or additions in Docs, I encourage you to provide feedback about this directly to. Collapse or expand parts of a document. Place your cursor in the heading. On the Home tab, click the arrow in the Paragraph group. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the checkbox next to Collapsed by default.

In the following text, we will explain some of the benefits which collapsed heading has for us.

But before that, I want to explain why we can not see this capability in our text in some situations.

Why Can not See Collapsive Headings in The Document;

There are two reasons that you cannot see “collapsive headings” in your document.

1- The version of Word which you are using from it is later than 2013.

Only in Word 2013 or earlier version, you can see this feature.

2- You did not specify the heading for your document.

Before explaining how to specify heading, if you click on the heading in your text in the style window, you can see Normal Style is selected, it shows that you did not specify heading for your text.

For specifying the heading for your document you should follow these steps;

1- Click on the Heading.

2- Go to the Home tab.

3- In the Style part Click on the Heading.

According to the position of your heading in the text you can choose Heading 1 or 2 or 3.

4- Repeat these steps for other headings.

5- When you specify all headings in your text you can Right-click on one of them.

6- Choose Expand/Collapse.

7- Choose “Collapse All Headings”.

Here you can see all headings on one page. this features can bring for you some benefits like reading, moving, deleting and managing chapters in your text much easier.

I am going to explain some of them here.

How to Move Chapters in Collapsive Mode.

Here I want to move Chapters second and third and fourth to the end of the document.

If you want to move one or some chapters to the other place you can

1- Select them.

2- Hold Ctrl and then press X or right-click on them and click on the Cut key.

3- Place your cursor on the heading which is located after those chapters.

4- Hold Ctrl and then press V.

But here because we want to move these chapters to the end of the document, I recommend, paste them before the last chapter,

For that, you should place your mouse at the beginning of the last chapter line.

and paste them to that position and then move the last chapter to your desired position.

How to Delete Chapters in Collapsive Mode.

1- Select your desired chapters.

2- Press Delete key.

How to Collapse all the Headings by Default.

1- Select all Headings.

2- Click on the Home tab.

3- In the Paragraph section click on the launcher.

4- In the General section, select the “Collapse by default” box.

5- Click Ok.

After that when you open this file, all the headings will be collapsed.

How to Print Collapsive Document.

You should pay attention to this point that only expanded part in the document will be printed.

You should expand the sections which you want to print them before printing your document.

1- Right-click on one of the heading.

2- Choose “Expand All Heading” for printing all the pages in the document.

• If you want to print the only specific section you should click on them and select “Expand heading” option.

If you want to see how your file will appear before printing

3- Go to the File.

4- Click on Print.

In the Print preview window, you can see the appearance of your text before printing.

A collapsible element contains a toggle a reader can use to show or hide the element's content. Elements are made collapsible by adding the mw-collapsible class, or alternatively by using the {{Collapse}} template, or its variants {{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}.

Collapsible tables[edit]

The mw-collapsible class can make any element collapsible, but tables are particularly simple to make collapsible. Adding the mw-collapsible class to a table automatically positions the toggle, and selects which parts to collapse.

A common use is to make a collapsible layout table, which always displays an introduction or summary, but hides the rest of the content from immediate view. The introduction or summary is in the first row, and the content is in subsequent rows. The content is then easily accessible by using the 'show' button.

In the examples below, the use of the class wikitable is merely for appearance; it is not needed for mw-collapsible to function.

More complex data tables can also be collapsible.

Collapsing by default[edit]

Just using the mw-collapsible class leaves the element expanded by default, but it can be collapsed by the reader. It is also possible to make the element collapsed by default, and optionally expanded. There are several methods for doing this, depending on the situations in which you want the element to collapse.

'mw-collapsed'[edit]

Adding the mw-collapsed class will cause the element to always be initially collapsed, no matter what happens around it. It is the simplest method for doing so. Using the examples above:

'autocollapse'[edit]

Adding the autocollapse class causes an element to collapse if there are 2 or more collapsible elements on the page. This threshold might be different on other projects and is customizable. The example below, therefore, collapses because there are numerous collapsible elements on this page.

'innercollapse' and 'outercollapse'[edit]

Using this pair of classes, it is possible to make an element collapsed by default only when it is contained within a particular outer element. An element with the mw-collapsible and innercollapse classes is collapsed by default if it is contained within an element with the outercollapse class; otherwise, it is uncollapsed by default. This is mainly useful for templates, which are often nested.

How To Add A Collapsible Heading In Word

Other notes[edit]

Tables with captions[edit]

A table without a caption will collapse to its first row. A table with a caption will collapse to its caption, with no rows, therefore no width. Use class='nowrap' or {{nowrap}} to keep the caption from being squeezed into a vertical column when the table is collapsed.

Sortable tables[edit]

Collapsible tables can be combined with the sortable tables functionality without difficulty. However, because the hide/show button is placed with collapsible in the first header cell located or with mw-collapsible in the right header cell (this difference may change), its positioning can look a bit peculiar if the cell is not wide enough:

A possible alternative is to add a caption over the table. See the following example.

Customization[edit]

Registered users can edit their personal js file to change some of the variables used.

Limitations[edit]

• This functionality requires the end-user's browser to have JavaScript enabled. If JavaScript is disabled, the default behaviour is to show the content.
• It doesn't work on mobile browsers (or desktop browsers in mobile mode) either.

See also[edit]

Documentation:

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Scrolling lists and collapsible content – style guidelines for collapsing content

Templates:

• {{Collapse}}
• {{Collapse-top}} and {{Collapse-bottom}} – More feature-rich than {{collapse}}
• {{Hidden}}
• {{Navbar-collapsible}}

Collapsible Headings In Word 2016

External links[edit]

Collapsible Headers In Word Form