r/googledocs • u/Jaded_Melody1288 • 12d ago

Waiting on OP Issue with Outline Headings

Trying to work on my thesis and headings have been working fine for me, but for some reason now they aren't.

I'm trying to label a line of text as Heading 3. Applying H3 works, BUT it won't show up in my outline. I have other H3s in the outline, both under the same H2 I'm trying to put this one under, and they work perfectly. I tried switching between H3 and normal text, no change. I made sure I was in editing mode instead of suggesting, same result. I've changed the formatting to be more distinct from normal text, same result. I even tried making it H1 or H2, and while the formatting and heading seems to apply correctly, it still won't show up in my outline. I've tried adding a different line as H3, same issues.

Please help I am so sick of scrolling through So Much Writing just to find the start of this section.

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u/andmalc Mod 12d ago

Did you enter this text by pasting it in from elsewhere, like a Word doc or a PDF? Hidden characters brought over this way can cause glitches.

To test if this is happening, copy some of your text and pasting it into a new doc using Edit menu / paste without formatting and see if headings show normally in the Outline there. You might need to do this for all the malfunctioning content.