How to remove sections from collapsable style

I don't think you or Charles has yet understood Kyle's problem. He knows how to use heading styles followed by Body Text-level styles in order to collapse the Body Text. The issue is that everything following a heading is being collapsed, and at some point he wants to stop the collapsing, leaving some of the Body Text uncollapsed. I don't see any way to do that without inserting another heading, and the text below that would still be subject to being collapsed unless it were all in a heading style.

Perhaps I used an imprecise word.  If not cumbersome, they are not intuitive at all, at least to me.

This also comes after I've spent some time searching for a solution, or better way to do this.

I see that you are a lawyer, perfect, I am currently creating an outline for constitutional law, and I want one section (between other sections) that is collapsible for old law.

I assigned an outline level style to the section I want to be collapsible.  How do I separate the rest of the document from that style (so that it is not hidden when the section is hidden).

My solution was to assign the next starting section to another outline level style (or same one).  Now that section is collapsible.

If I try to remove that style all text following the First collapsible section becomes a part of it, which defeats the purpose.

If there is a way to create a collapsible section without styles I would probably prefer that, but so far this has been the only way I can find to do it.

While we are here, is there a way to remove words from the dictionary included in word (their default dictionary), Mine doesn't highlight judgement which happens to be a problem since I have a habit of throwing that 'e' in there.  I currently have word set to autocorrect judgement to judgment, but I would like it to just highlight the incorrect word so I can correct my typing habits.

Hi Kyle,

Using styles is not cumbersome, Or, if it is, it is nevertheless the way Word is designed. Styles are at the heart of a Word document. If they seem cumbersome, it is perhaps time to learn how to use them better.  Importance of Styles in Word

The only styles that collapse material under them are those with an outline level assigned such as the built-in-heading styles. Anything with such a style ahead of it can be collapsed under the outline-level style.

If you avoid paragraphs that have outline levels set as a part of their paragraph formatting, nothing will collapse. I think you are missing out on powerful features if you do this, but you can do it.  Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly

Here is the part of my page on outlining which covers use of collapsible heading styles.

Outlining in Microsoft Word

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help. You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below).

Regards

Hi Suzanne,

I think we all understand that what he wants to do. If he has one outline-level paragraph, all text following that can be collapsed. He wants a way to end the collapsed area without having another area that can be collapsed. That cannot be accomplished using methods built into Word.

The methods outlined in Greg's pages would do what is wanted.

To prevent any other areas from being collapsible, though, he is going to have to remove all outline-level formatting from the document. In my opinion, the value of outline level formatting, especially the built-in headings is such that this is not advisable. I urge Kyle to review Shauna Kelly's page before deciding to do that.

Once you have a collapsible style used, it will collapse everything between it and another collapsible style of the same or a higher-order outline level. This is built into the program, not the document.

I have my options set to automatically expand everything when I open a document.

On your other question, you can create an Exclude dictionary/list. I use it for "form" and "from" both of which I use frequently and which can really mess up a legal document if the wrong one is typed.

See Suzanne Barnhill's article on the spelling checker:

http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/MasterSpellCheck.htm#Exclusion