Word – use a Heading style on the same line as normal text

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I have a resume formatted in Microsoft Word with job titles (formatted as Heading 2) and job location (Normal Text) listed on a single line.

Header from resume

Unfortunately, having two different Styles on a single line can be a bit finicky, causing unintended side effects.

I've found that sometimes the Heading font style will apply correctly, but they will not show up in the Document Map or Table of Contents unless the Heading style is applied to an entire line with no other text.

Document map

The only helpful reference I've been able to find is an old forum post that was answered by linking to an article which is no longer available.

Is it possible to have a Heading Style on the same line as normal text which has no styles applied?

Best Answer

Another possible approach is to modify the heading style so that it's inserted in a frame. If Frame appears in the Format drop-down at the bottom of the Modify style dialog box, you can specify that the content of the heading should be in a frame, and that the surrounding content should flow around it. See, for example, this Super User question; although this involves side headings in the left margin and is for a later version of Word, the basic principles are the same.

(When I suggested using style separators in my comment, I didn't think this functionality for applying frames to paragraph styles existed in Word 2007, but this page and others indicate that it did.)

Unlike headings in a table, headings in a frame will show up in both the TOC and the document map (Navigation pane in later versions of Word).

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