How to Create and View an Outline in Google Docs
Step 1: Go to the Menu Bar & Select Normal Text
To insert a heading or subheading into the outline, you must click on the “normal text” option found within the Google Docs menu bar.
Select Normal Text
Step 2: Select Heading 1
Upon selecting the “normal text” option, a list of various heading styles will appear. From this list, you should choose “Heading 1” and then click on “Apply Heading 1.”
Select heading 1
Step 3: Type Heading 1 Text
Once you’ve chosen the “Heading 1” option, you should now go ahead to enter the text that you want to define as “Heading 1” throughout your document.
Note: In the provided screenshot below, you can observe that “w3wiki” has been entered as the text, which will be displayed as “Heading 1.”
Enter Text
Step 4: Heading Added to the Outline
Now in the below screenshot, we can see that the heading which we have added in the document has been added in the overall outline of the document.
Heading Added
How to Create an Outline in Google Docs
Google Docs is the favorite text editor of many users due to its cloud-based behavior. Different types of features significantly improve the structure and quality of the main text. One of the core features of Google Docs is adding an outline to a Google Docs document. Outline in Google Docs offers a road map or provides an organized overview of our documents.
If you are creating any research paper, a report, or a business proposal, then using an outline can streamline your writing process and also enable us or help us to maintain the logical structure of our document. Here, we will see the steps to add an outline in our Google document. Also, we will see the steps for mobile devices.