Configure a Document's Heading Styles

Contents

• Overview
• Pre-conditions
• Steps
• Notes

Overview

You can configure your document's default* text/font styles (Normal, Headings 1-5) in their multiple font settings:

• Font;
• Font size;
• Bold;
• Italic;
• Underlined;
• Text's colour.

Pre-conditions

• Document Level Permission: 'Owner', 'Editor'.
• The current stage allows editing.
• If the document is created from a template, that template is currently not enforcing its heading text styles (How to Enforce Heading Text Styles).

Steps

Custom Method:

1. Click Format in the menu bar.
2. Select Text styles.
3. Click the paragraph style to configure font for.
4. Configure font.
5. Click Save.

Template Inheritance Method:

1. Click Format in the menu bar.
2. Select Text styles.
3. Toggle the Inherit text styles to documents created from this template* button.
4. Click Save.

Bulk Paragraph Reformatting

After configuring the heading styles of a document, when it comes to applying text style (heading) changes to any number of paragraphs in your document, this can be done by dragging your cursor over said paragraphs to select them all, and then applying the desired formatting change.

Notes