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View your Document Headings and Navigate to them on Microsoft Word Mobile

Sai Deepthi Kovvuru's avatar
Dec 23, 2020

We have heard your feedback on not being able to navigate to the relevant sections of your word documents on the Mobile Apps. We have started rolling out this, much-awaited feature in Word Mobile. You can now open your Headings Pane and navigate to the relevant sections of your documents with a few taps. See below for a quick how-to:

 

 

What’s more? We even detect headings that are not marked in the Headings font styles using our Intelligence algorithm. The algorithm brings you sections of text that are most likely to be Headings as well. We would like your feedback on the accuracy of these detections.

 

 

 

Still not seeing any headings? You can create your own by going to the Home tab and clicking on the Styles gallery. Notice as you click over each style, your text will change so you can see how it will look in your document. Keep the heading style you want to use. Once you create Headings, you should see them in the Headings Pane for quick navigation.

 

 

This feature is available on both Android and iOS Word Apps. We are slowly rolling it out on builds greater than 2.43 on iOS, and greater than 13530.10000 on Android. Alternatively, you can also find this feature in the Office Mobile App on iOS in builds greater than 2.43. Please try out the feature and let us know what you think.

Updated Apr 15, 2022
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  • ImOnThePc's avatar
    ImOnThePc
    Copper Contributor

    I am using a Samsung Galaxy S20+, android 11, and Word version version 1.0.1 (16.0.13628.20214).  I don't see any options to view or use headings.  On my Windows 10 desktop (Win 10 Pro version 2009 (20H2) (Oct 2020) Build 19042 64 bit) the same documents have no problems with the headings.  This article says "This feature is available on both Android and iOS Word Apps " but I don't know what app the screen shots are from; the hand icon is pointing to 3 horizontal dots, mine has 3 vertical dots.

  • Red_Rooster's avatar
    Red_Rooster
    Copper Contributor

    How do I turn OFF the auto-detected headings permanently (Word iOS)? For me they are incredibly annoying and unhelpful because I add headings manually to my document, and Word keeps adding random lines that I *don’t* want as headings. But when I toggle this setting off, it turns itself back on every time I reopen the document.