Document map

Hi Jo,

Thank you for your post, welcome to the forum, hopefully we will see more of you here:

In answer to your question:

How to invoke Document Map:
View > Document Map. You'll see the Document Map on the left of your Word screen.
How to get Document Map to display something useful:
To get Document Map to display useful headings, apply the built-in heading styles to the headings in your document.
To do that, use the drop-down Styles menu on the toolbar. Choose Heading 1 for your main headings, Heading 2 for sub-headings and Heading 3 for minor headings.
How to use the Document Map to move around your document quickly:
If you click on a heading in the Document Map, the cursor will jump to that heading. That gives you a fast way to navigate around your document.
How to use the Document Map to see where you are in a document
If you have a really big document, it's sometimes easy to get "lost". You can see a page of text, but it's hard to know where you are in the document.
In outline view you could expand or collapse individual headings by clicking on the Plus and Minus signs next to the headings.
Or using Document Map is another good way to solve this problem. As you move around your document, the Document Map will highlight the current heading.
How to control the number of levels that Document Map displays:
There are two controls available:
You can determine how many levels of headings the Document Map displays. Right-click in a blank area of the Document Map, and choose how many levels you want to display. You can expand or collapse individual headings by clicking on the plus and minus signs next to the headings.
Hover over the vertical bar to the right of the Document Map and drag to change the width of the Document Map.
How to change the format of the text in the Document Map:
Text in the Document Map is shown in style Document Map. Modify the Document Map style to suit your needs. I find that 10pt Tahoma works well.
Bugs - Challenges - Annoyances:
There are several problems with Document Map:
Document Map doesn't show headings that are in tables. I find this really annoying but it doesn't look like it will get fixed any time soon.
Document Map won't show numbering on a heading that immediately follows a hard page break. There is a solution to this: don