How do I close a heading?

Question

I'm using headings in my document, and while I appreciate the ability to collapse each section, I need a way to collapse the last heading while keeping text beneath it still open - it's unrelated, and I'd rather it didn't get collapsed with the other text.

Is there any way to stop text beneath a heading from collapsing? To end the heading's "collapse section", so to speak?

For example:

Heading 1

   Subheading 1

Heading 2

   Subheading 2

Heading 3

   Subheading 3

Unrelated text, which I would like to remain non-collapsed, even when I collapse heading 3.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

To Word, all non-heading text following a heading belongs to that heading. What you could do is add a blank paragraph immediately before the "unrelated text" paragraph in your example and format that blank paragraph in, say, Heading 1 style.

Note that this is a bit of a clumsy workaround. In general, it is better to avoid blank paragraphs in a document.

Answer 2

Ah. Well dang!

Thank you for your swift response.