Word: Collapse & Expand Headings by Chris Menard

Need to focus on a certain part of a long, complicated Word document? You can by collapsing headings. The outline level is what determines what can be collapsed and expanded.

You can collapse or expand the entire document or just specific headings.

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[rhoye]

You didn't explain how to make it, you just showed how it works 🙄

[nietfeldtn]

Hi Chris, I don't see the arrow to collapse. It doesn't show up when I select the paragraph button either. Any suggestions?

[vincenzmautner]

Didn't work for me and took me some time to figure out why - it is because this feature is not available on Mac unfortunately

[vincwong]

i don't have collapse option in my right click menu, nor the little collapse bullet beside my heading.
how?

[joan-mariacbrooks]

I have wasted 3 days on two documents which featured this and no one ever mentioned they were using it. Now I see what the issue is with the documents and my inability to edit them; even more, I use Apple which this feature is not available. So nice to know Microsoft keeps certain features unavailable for users who don't use PCs.

[cotepm]

Good job! Love the accent. Salutations de Montréal!

[ramanujamr]

For expanding and collapsing, shall we make it by clicking on the headings directly instead of clicking on the arrow on the left ?

[andiyas]

Thank you for that. Can we send the document to someone in a collapsed form? In other words, can we save it in a collapsed form and share it with another person.

[saimounika]

hie...please tell how to remove the expand or collapse command in word document

[mkokkula]

this is great Chris. thank you for the tip. I am looking for doing this in outlook message. is it possible?

[NCS-TRV]

Is there a way of converting these collapsable section to PDF? I am trying to create a product FAQ for our clients.

[jakew]

How do I limit the field of a Heading. All text after my last Heading collapses into it, not just the text I want to.

[SHOS]

Can this option also be used for Outlook

[lisaamante]

Las Vegas, NV, USA: Hi Chris, say, how do I expand all the subordinate headings under just one Heading 1 section? I have a large document where I created a multilevel list and each of the levels are formatted as headers (1:8). I start with all heading levels collapsed so only Headings 1 show. Then, I often need to just expand one Heading.

For example, assume you have heading levels 2 and 3 inside your heading 1, Financial Summary from your video above. How do you just expand all the heading level 2s and 3s that are just under the Financial Summary section?

[nasimahmd]

i have office 2016, is this a new feature? collapsing a 15 page document would make it so much more clean 😂

[Razorgirl]

I fucking hate expand/collapse and I wish I could turn the fuckers off. I appreciate that this has a use in certain contexts, but for the love of god give us the option to turn this frustrating "feature" fucking off.