In a word-processing document or text frame, you can use an outline to organize your ideas or reorganize existing text.

In an outline, each paragraph is a topic or subtopic. The relationship between topics and subtopics is indicated by levels of indentation and, in most outline styles, by the topic label.

You can quickly reorganize your document by moving topics around or by changing their level. To focus on main topics, you can hide (collapse) lower levels of the outline.

Topic		Subtopics
Topic label

Unlike lists, outlines indicate the hierarchy of the paragraphs. For example, outline subtopics have topic labels such as 2.5.1, whereas each item in a checklist starts with a checkbox.

For more information, see the following topics:

	Creating an outline
	Rearranging the topics of an outline
	Viewing more or fewer levels of an outline
	Changing outline topic labels and styles
	Outline keyboard shortcuts