Headings and subheadings organize content to guide readers. A heading or subheading appears at the beginning of a page or section and briefly describes the content that follows. Headings are a fantastic way to tell people what they need to know quickly. Learn how to use styles for headings to make your documents easier to navigate.
More importantly, improve accessibility with heading styles!
Type the text you want into a Word document.
Select a sentence that you want to add a header to.
Select Home > Styles (or press Alt+H, then L), and then select the heading you want, such as the Heading 1 button.
Word applies a font and color change to help make it clear that this is a title -- the Heading 1 of the article. The next heading type is Heading 2.
For best practices, having a consistent and well-written heading structure in a document is very useful to improve the overall content of it. It can be extracted into a table of contents or an overview to provide visual navigation. If heading levels are skipped, the user will not be able to find or navigate the document properly. For instance, if a heading level two is skipped, the user will not be able to find the third-level headings.
To learn more, visit Microsoft's Heading resource page.
Note: If you change the style of normal text, the heading fonts will also change to the new style.
On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
For best practices, having a consistent and well-written heading structure in a document is very useful to improve the overall content of it. It can be extracted into a table of contents or an overview to provide visual navigation. If heading levels are skipped, the user will not be able to find or navigate the document properly. For instance, if a heading level two is skipped, the user will not be able to find the third level headings.
Heading Tags – A heading is text in a PDF that indicates a document title or section in a PDF. If you imagine a PDF is a book, then the headings are like the title and chapters in a PDF. H1 headings would be the main title of the PDF. H2 headings would be like the chapters in a book. If the book is a textbook, H3 – H6 are like the sub-headings within chapters. Try to be consistent with your sub headings.
PDF Accessibility: Headings Video
For best practices, having a consistent and well-written heading structure in a document is very useful to improve the overall content of it. It can be extracted into a table of contents or an overview to provide visual navigation. If heading levels are skipped, the user will not be able to find or navigate the document properly. For instance, if a heading level two is skipped, the user will not be able to find the third level headings.