How To Change Heading Styles In Word

Rackham has very specific requirements for nigh elements in your document. For example, your chapter titles and front end affair titles (east. g., Dedication, Acknowledgements, etc.) demand to be formatted in a item way. Below is an instance of how you tin set that up using the Heading 1 mode – please confirm your Heading 1 manner with the Rackham guidelines to exist sure nothing has inverse and that we didn't miss anything!

On the Dwelling Ribbon, in the Styles Grouping, right-click on the Heading 1 style and select Modify.
In the Modify Style dialog box (see picture higher up), in the Formatting: department,
- Set the font to Times New Roman.
- Fix the font size to 12 bespeak.
- Set the text color to blackness.
- Center the text.
- Select single or double spaced lines.
Click on the Format button in the bottom-left corner of the dialog box and choose Paragraph (see below).
In the Indents and Spacing tab, blazon in 1 in. or 72 pt (these are equivalent values) in the Spacing Before: box. This adds the two-inch margin required for affiliate titles (this ane inch, then ane inch from the margin). ** Please note that you must have a Section Break (Next Page) inserted before the title text for that extra inch to be added **
Since the capacity and front matter take to kickoff on a new page, you can build a page intermission into the style by going to the Line and Page Breaks tab and checking the box for Page Interruption Earlier.