Add a title, heading, or table of contents in a document


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You can organize your document with text styles like titles, headings, and a table of contents. You can customize the font and size of the text styles and set your styles as defaults.

Add, change, or delete a table of contents

You can see your document structure with a table of contents. Each item in the table of contents links to your document headings or title.

Make a title or heading

Use collapsible headings in your Google Doc

If your document is in pageless mode, you can expand and collapse your titles and headings to organize your content or hide certain sections.

Tip: Anyone that has edit, comment, or view access to a Google Doc can expand and collapse headings.

  1. On your computer, open a Google Doc that's in pageless mode.
  2. Hover over the heading you want to expand or collapse.
  3. To the left of the heading, click Expand heading Expand or Collapse heading Collapse.

Expand or collapse multiple headings

If you have many headings in a document, you can choose to collapse or expand all headings of the same style.

  1. On your computer, open a Google Doc that's in pageless mode.
  2. Right click a heading.
  3. Click Expand all headings of the same style Expand all or Collapse all headings of the same style Collapse all.

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