But the numbers won't appear properly in your Table of Contents unless you use Word's built-in heading styles. Let's say you want your page numbers to look like -4 or. But Word makes it easier if you use the built-in Heading styles, because they are the default.
You can use any styles to construct a Table of Contents. See How to apply a style in Word for a list. It is particularly easy to apply the built-in Heading styles because Word has built-in keyboard shortcuts. But Word makes it easier to apply numbering to the built-in Heading styles. You can apply numbering to any kind of style. If you don't like the format of the built-in styles (and few people would find them attractive as they arrive out of the box), you can modify the styles so they have the font, paragraph and other formatting you want. But there are good reasons to use Word's built-in Heading styles. You can use other styles (including your own custom styles) for most heading and numbering purposes. They are called Heading 1, Heading 2 etc. You can do almost any task of numbering using your own custom styles.īut there are over a dozen good reasons to use the built-in Heading styles and modify them to suit your needs.
