Ah! I finally found what I was looking for! I'm attempting to write my first novel and I'm trying to become a planner/plotter rather than a "pantser" because I get stuck way too often. Now that I know how to work with that outlining tool, I think I'll be able to outline better. Thank you! 🙏😭
This is sooo useful. My drama club is writing a script for a play that has 4 acts and 17 scenes, and it was such a long document it was horrible to navigate. I just finished doing this and it's so much easier. Thank you!
Really helped, I did came here for the tutorial last two years ago, but I forgot about it and yeah, thanks to making me remember this helpful stuffs! Writing a simple long novel, without the navigation of each chapters/act really gives you a stressful day!
I don't even know you but you have made my life 0.5x easier. It seems like a little but that is A LOT. A tool that will remain with me for a long span of time. Thank you. Thank you. Blessings. World Peace.
Hello there, If you are stuck trying to open the outline (2:02) section of the video then google might had made some changes since Stacey Roshan had posted this video. So if you are stuck Open up Google documents: Go to View tab > click on Show document outline. And the outline menu will open up.
Nice one Stacey! I was wondering if you could somehow, collapse the table of contents or the Schema that you can open on the left, to just show the main headings
Thank you! The ability to "show document outline" is more robust now since I made this video. The icon stays on the left of your google doc and you can click/unclick to show/hide. To delete a heading, once the document outline is open, if you hover over the heading that you don't want to show anymore, then you can click the X and it will remove that heading. Hope that helps!
@@StaceyRoshan yup! thanks again Stacey! indeed now you can show and hide the outline, my issue is that I have a very loooong doc, with many headers and subheaders, I was just wondering if there is a way to collapse all subheaders and show only the headers... maybe it will be a future feature :)
@@JaiMe-um4bt Ah, I get it. I think the problem is that Google Docs labels them all as headers (header 1, header 2, header 3). The only thing that doesn't show up, from what I've found, is the subtitle. I suppose you could format the "subtitle" to whatever you want the "subheadings" to look like... but then you would have to go back and reformat everything you currently have as a subheading. That's my only thought. Not great... there are definitely limitations with the Google Doc outline view!
Professor Percival Wulfric you need to separate the heading text from the body text with a return. You can’t have text with different header formats on the same line. Hope this helps!
Whenever I make anything a header or a subheader it makes everything on the page a header, even when I only highlight one word or one line. It's very frustrating.
Try this. Make sure that you have hit the "return" or "enter" key to start a new line between what you want as your header and the main body text. If I ever have a problem like what you described, I just take out all the spaces between the header and the main body text, go to the end of the header text and hit the "return" key, and then things work just fine. Hope that helps.
Not that I know of. It's super basic. In the document outline, you can X out items that you want to remove from the document outline (and if you need to re-add it to the document outline, just right click on the header within the document and you can choose "add to document outline." That's all I know, at least!
Once I have the Table of Contents (which pulls in the page number on the Google doc), how do I then get those page numbers to actually appear as "page numbers" on the actual pages of the document?
Hi Liz - you want to go to the insert menu and choose page number. This help article should explain further: support.google.com/docs/answer/86629?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Even when I highlight it and try to change it into a heading, it changes the rest of the text into a heading instead of leaving it alone. It's beyond frustrating.
You need to press enter between blocks of text that you want to change the formatting on. You can’t, for example, have part of the sentence as Heading 1 and the rest as Normal Text. Don’t worry about highlighting the text. Instead, make sure that you have pressed enter after the line of text that you want as a header. I hope that helps!
@@spacemax1744 There might not be a recognizable enter between. Maybe try the following: "Cut" *all the text* that is currently turning into a heading. Then "Paste without formatting" back into your document. Make sure that you have physically pressed enter between the heading line and the rest of the text.
I don't know what I am doing wrong. Whenever I highlight something to be the title, it makes everything else a title even though I didn't highlight it. Same with headings and subheadings too.
I think the problem is that you need to hit enter/return between heading types. It doesn't allow you to just highlight certain parts of the text to change the header style within a paragraph.
You probably just need to press enter between the two lines so that it recognizes a line break. Try changing the whole document back to normal text, then make sure there is an actual enter/return after the title, then highlight the title and change its header. That should work!
how do you get the links for the table of content in the side? i know where is a way to have it lying to the left of the document, so when you scroll up and down the links keep following you.
You probably just need to press enter between the two lines so that it recognizes a line break. Try changing the whole document back to normal text, then make sure there is an actual enter/return after the title, then highlight the title and change its header. That should work!
Check your view menu. Last week, Google Docs announced that “Document outline” has been renamed “Show document outline” and moved from the Tools menu to the View menu. Hope this helps!
It is so broken that it hurts. If I put something in the "page header" and label it as a Title, it doesn't appear in the outline. If I remove it and place it in the normal space, under the "page header" then apply 'Title' to it, then it'll appear in the outline. It makes zero sense.
Ah! I finally found what I was looking for! I'm attempting to write my first novel and I'm trying to become a planner/plotter rather than a "pantser" because I get stuck way too often. Now that I know how to work with that outlining tool, I think I'll be able to outline better. Thank you! 🙏😭
Love!!! Good luck in writing your novel!
Love this... I am a pantser and it isn't really working out for me!! LOL I am going to use this to plan and plot!
Old but gold.
😊 ❣️
I have been looking for how to do this for MONTHS!!!!!! I knew there had to be a way. So glad I found your video. Thank you Thank you!
So glad this helped!!
Wow! Thank you, that just made my new procedure manual a whole lot easier to navigate for the users!
thank you so much, if only everyone was as straight forward as you. much appreciated though
I appreciate your note, Josh! I try to be as concise as possible. It isn't always easy, but that's always my goal!
That's the way isn't it, as long as the effort is there that's all that matters :)
So helpful for my group report. Very simple and easy to follow. My teammates, our grades and I thank you for this tutorial!
So glad this helped you & your group!!
This is sooo useful. My drama club is writing a script for a play that has 4 acts and 17 scenes, and it was such a long document it was horrible to navigate. I just finished doing this and it's so much easier. Thank you!
That is *awesome*! So glad this helped and really kind of you to leave the note :)
THANK YOU! Clear, to the point & included the subheading info I could not find elsewhere!
So glad this was helpful! And thank you for taking the time to leave such a kind comment :)
Oh my gosh thank you so much! This is going to help tremendously for my book.
I wrote my whole book in Google Docs, too! Yes, the table of contents / document outline is a lifesaver. Good luck with your book!!
Super straightforward and easy to follow!
So glad to hear this helped! Thanks for leaving a comment.
Really helped, I did came here for the tutorial last two years ago, but I forgot about it and yeah, thanks to making me remember this helpful stuffs!
Writing a simple long novel, without the navigation of each chapters/act really gives you a stressful day!
So glad to help, Xalysian!
I don't even know you but you have made my life 0.5x easier. It seems like a little but that is A LOT. A tool that will remain with me for a long span of time. Thank you. Thank you. Blessings. World Peace.
I'm so happy that you found my video & that it helped you out!! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment.
I was so stuck on how to do this, thank you this was so helpful!💕💕
So glad this helped!!
Thank you Stacey, this was very helpful!
You're very welcome! Glad to hear.
That saved a lot of time...who else actually did it section by section at a time before
Hey, thank you for this this was really useful. Hope you have a good day!
I'm so glad this was what you were looking for! And thanks for the kind message :)
thank you! this tool, precisely, is what i need right now!
Hello there, If you are stuck trying to open the outline (2:02) section of the video then google might had made some changes since Stacey Roshan had posted this video. So if you are stuck Open up Google documents: Go to View tab > click on Show document outline. And the outline menu will open up.
Nice one Stacey! I was wondering if you could somehow, collapse the table of contents or the Schema that you can open on the left, to just show the main headings
Thank you! The ability to "show document outline" is more robust now since I made this video. The icon stays on the left of your google doc and you can click/unclick to show/hide. To delete a heading, once the document outline is open, if you hover over the heading that you don't want to show anymore, then you can click the X and it will remove that heading. Hope that helps!
@@StaceyRoshan yup! thanks again Stacey! indeed now you can show and hide the outline, my issue is that I have a very loooong doc, with many headers and subheaders, I was just wondering if there is a way to collapse all subheaders and show only the headers... maybe it will be a future feature :)
@@JaiMe-um4bt Ah, I get it. I think the problem is that Google Docs labels them all as headers (header 1, header 2, header 3). The only thing that doesn't show up, from what I've found, is the subtitle. I suppose you could format the "subtitle" to whatever you want the "subheadings" to look like... but then you would have to go back and reformat everything you currently have as a subheading. That's my only thought. Not great... there are definitely limitations with the Google Doc outline view!
@@StaceyRoshan Thanks Stacey! Will give that a try. Have a great Sunday :)
Thanks for this ravishing explanation.
Thankyou very much, easy to create after i look this video
Doesn't really work. Marking a heading and choosing "heading 2" for example, makes all text into heading 2 regardless of highlight selection.
Professor Percival Wulfric you need to separate the heading text from the body text with a return. You can’t have text with different header formats on the same line. Hope this helps!
@@StaceyRoshan What do you mean by return?
Straightforward and simple. Thank you
You're a life-saver! I'm subscribed!
So glad you found my video & that it helped you out!!
Awesome video, thank you!
this was super helpful. God Bless🙏
I’m so glad you found this helpful! Thank you for taking the time to leave a kind comment.
I tried and it is installed thank u very much anda
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Simply Amazing - a"thousand thanks
Finally something useful. Thanks a lot!
So happy this helped!
Great video Stacey. Thanks very much.
Nigel Hunter so glad this helped!
It helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing.
You are a lifesaver!! Thanks!
So glad you found my video & that it delivered!
Marvelous, thank you 😊
Whenever I make anything a header or a subheader it makes everything on the page a header, even when I only highlight one word or one line. It's very frustrating.
Try this. Make sure that you have hit the "return" or "enter" key to start a new line between what you want as your header and the main body text. If I ever have a problem like what you described, I just take out all the spaces between the header and the main body text, go to the end of the header text and hit the "return" key, and then things work just fine. Hope that helps.
@@StaceyRoshan I know that it has been a long time since you posted this, but thank you so much.
@@peasantadam1015 Thanks for leaving a comment! I'm so glad this was helpful.
Brilliant explanation. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind comment! So glad this was helpful.
Thank you so much for posting this. I wish it was that simple in Word.
Thank you for your help
Nice Job, Stacey.
Hi~ Compared to Word, Google Docs Outline cannot show numbering? Is this correct? So we have to add numbering in each heading manually?
Is there any way to collapse the subcontents within each chapter of the document outline in an example like yours?
Not that I know of. It's super basic. In the document outline, you can X out items that you want to remove from the document outline (and if you need to re-add it to the document outline, just right click on the header within the document and you can choose "add to document outline." That's all I know, at least!
Perfect. Thank you
Thank you so much for your help :D
So glad this was helpful! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment :)
brief and clear, thank you!
Once I have the Table of Contents (which pulls in the page number on the Google doc), how do I then get those page numbers to actually appear as "page numbers" on the actual pages of the document?
Hi Liz - you want to go to the insert menu and choose page number. This help article should explain further: support.google.com/docs/answer/86629?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Even when I highlight it and try to change it into a heading, it changes the rest of the text into a heading instead of leaving it alone. It's beyond frustrating.
You need to press enter between blocks of text that you want to change the formatting on. You can’t, for example, have part of the sentence as Heading 1 and the rest as Normal Text. Don’t worry about highlighting the text. Instead, make sure that you have pressed enter after the line of text that you want as a header. I hope that helps!
@@StaceyRoshan There is space between the text but it's treating it like it's all a part of the same sentence for whatever reason
@@spacemax1744 There might not be a recognizable enter between. Maybe try the following: "Cut" *all the text* that is currently turning into a heading. Then "Paste without formatting" back into your document. Make sure that you have physically pressed enter between the heading line and the rest of the text.
Thanks great video
Been wanting to learn this for some time now
Just what I needed. Thanks!
+Rachel Kolodziej awesome! Glad to help.
Stacey Roshan
That was useful, thank you!
Awesome! Thank you so much
Glad this helped!
OMG! This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! Gonna help me so much with my Fandom Bangs! :D Thank you so much!
really helpful, cheers :)
It works but afterwards the heading that's highlighted puts it on everything instead of the highlighted text I wanted.
You have to hit the enter/return button between heading types, otherwise it applies the heading to the full paragraph of text.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank You S. Roshan!
I don't know what I am doing wrong. Whenever I highlight something to be the title, it makes everything else a title even though I didn't highlight it. Same with headings and subheadings too.
I scrolled through the comments and figured out the issue. Thank you!!!
@@k.f.4909 Nice! Glad that this video & the comments section helped you out :)
thank you ur a godsend
So glad to help!!
for some reason when I try this, the entire document changes to the format instead of what I just highlighted
I think the problem is that you need to hit enter/return between heading types. It doesn't allow you to just highlight certain parts of the text to change the header style within a paragraph.
thank you!
THANK YOU
When i select something and i try to change it to a title everything changes please help me
You probably just need to press enter between the two lines so that it recognizes a line break. Try changing the whole document back to normal text, then make sure there is an actual enter/return after the title, then highlight the title and change its header. That should work!
SIMPLY STATED. thanks!
Thank you
I think it's strange that you can't add a header into the outline
My doc table of contents doesn't work in presentation preview
Are you doing Insert > Table of Contents? That works in the preview view. I don't know of a way to show document outline in preview view, however.
THANK YOU!
This doesn't work for me, it just makes the whole text for example sub-title.
Maybe you need to press "enter" between your lines? So that you properly are able to select what you want to be the sub-title versus normal text?
@@StaceyRoshan I put an empty row between titles and texts, does not quite help.
how do you get the links for the table of content in the side? i know where is a way to have it lying to the left of the document, so when you scroll up and down the links keep following you.
At 1:55 in the video, I show how to use the "Outline Tool" which does just that. Hope that helps!
Stacey Roshan ah... guess i missed that somehow when i just skipped through the video >_>
when i apply it it makes it the whole document
example: I apply my title to title, but it puts title for the whole document
How do I solve it
You probably just need to press enter between the two lines so that it recognizes a line break. Try changing the whole document back to normal text, then make sure there is an actual enter/return after the title, then highlight the title and change its header. That should work!
Brilliant !
Thank you!!
Amazing!
CN I PRINT OUTINE WITH PAGE NOS ON A WHITE PAPER
Gracias!!!
EMM HELP!! I dont get the option document outlines. dafok
Check your view menu. Last week, Google Docs announced that “Document outline” has been renamed “Show document outline” and moved from the Tools menu to the View menu. Hope this helps!
Thank you very much now I got it working :D
Thanks! :)
It is so broken that it hurts.
If I put something in the "page header" and label it as a Title, it doesn't appear in the outline.
If I remove it and place it in the normal space, under the "page header" then apply 'Title' to it, then it'll appear in the outline.
It makes zero sense.
The title and subtitle do not show up in the table of contents. Only the headings to (heading 1, heading 2, heading 3, etc). I hope that helps.
@@StaceyRoshan Thank you. Doesn't make any sense to me why it wouldn't, but I appreciate the response.
so dope, danke shön :-)
谢谢；感谢
Hot!
Super helpful! Thanks so much
Thank you!!
Thank you !!!
So glad to help!