{"id":987,"date":"2026-05-08T14:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:18:39","slug":"navigating-your-story-in-microsoft-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/articles\/navigating-your-story-in-microsoft-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating your story in Microsoft Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you are writing a novel, finding your way around the various chapters can be a pain. I often need to make additions, check consistency and of course the frequent &#8220;how did I spell his name again?&#8221; search. Scrolling around until you find the section you want is a terrible pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My approach to making things easier is to apply a <strong>heading style<\/strong> to each chapter title and then navigate using the navigation sidebar. It means I can just click on the chapter I want and instantly be taken there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Simples<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a screen shot of it in use, with the navigation bar on the left:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-1024x655.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-1130x722.png 1130w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2-760x486.png 760w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-2.png 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope that helps some of you out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are writing a novel, finding your way around the various chapters can be a pain. I often need to make additions, check consistency and of course the frequent &#8220;how did I spell his name again?&#8221; search. Scrolling around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-tools-tips","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-29-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}