Thanks for your re-assurance, Jezebel, but I still don't know how to do it.
If I just modify the existing styles as you suggest, I still don't know how
to make the annoying numbers go away. I tried and tried earlier, and all I
could do was delete'em on each heading after the fact. What I want to do is
apply a heading and presto, no numbers. (I also need to know how to get them
back later if I change my mind.)

Also, isn't there a way (I believe someone showed me this earlier) to start
from an 'unofficial' heading which I just typed in with a certain font, etc.,
and specify (a) that it should officially recognized as a type of heading,
and be placed in the list of heading styles, and (b) what its outline level
should be? The thing is, I already have a lot of those 'unofficial' headings.
For this document, Word decided for itself that my unofficial headings were
official headings - at least it put them into the document map although I
didn't notice a new name in the list of styles (perhaps I just missed it).
Apparently Word put them all at level 1 since they appear on the same level
in the document map as level 1 headings that I copy in from another document.
But I can't seem to just select them and assign them to level 2.

Thanks,
Peyton

"Jezebel" wrote:

This is what creating templates and defining styles is all about. You can
modify styles any way you like to make them look any way you want. Don't
bother defining new names. Create a new template if you want to use a
different set of heading styles for some other purpose, otherwise your style
list gets cluttered. The default styles have no inherent meaning that's
worth retaining (and in any case, you can get them back if you really want
to, by restoring normal.dot).




"Peyton Todd" wrote in message
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Hello. I'm trying to create headings for my document since I'm not happy
with
the built-in headings. Heading No. 1 is okay, but Heading No. 2 is not
different enough from Heading 1. Heading 3 would work, but there are two
problems with that:

1. I would prefer that it not be indented so far from Heading 1 on the
document map, so how do I upgrade its level to be level 2?
2. Much more important: How do I get rid of the numbers which appear
beside
it? I don't want 'em.

Also, I would like to have my own heading name so I still have the default
headings available. And I would like my new heading to be a choice
available
in all my future documents without having to go through this drill again
each
time.

Thanks for your help!

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Peyton Todd