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APA 7 level 4 heading with immediate body text and NO line break.

Nancy Upshaw 21 Reputation points
2022-01-21T21:45:39.223+00:00

I'm helping a friend update her APA 6 document to APA 7. I have set up a multi-level numbered List Style to handle the numbered headings and have mapped the levels to modified standard heading levels for proper formatting and outlining. This seems to be working ok as I paste body text in from the original document for the first 3 levels of headings. The problem I'm having now is this: APA 7 has changed the level 4 heading to be in-line with the beginning of the body text as seen below: 

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          1.1.1.1. HEADING. Body text begins on same line. and then the body text wraps to the next line wraps to next line wraps to the next line."

How do I accomplish getting the body text to start on the same line as the end of the heading without picking up the heading formatting? Keep in mind that the body text cannot appear in the TOC, which it currently will do because it thinks it is part of the same heading "paragraph". How to differentiate the two parts? Do I need to create some kind of special Heading 4 Style that allows more revision than the supplied headings (Heading-1, Heading-2, etc.) allow? Please explain step-by-step as I'm very new at attempting these features. (Yes, I'm diving in head-first, but I have watched many videos that got me to doing the multi-level List Style. etc., to make the numbered headings work, so I'm getting there. This requirement has me stumped though.)

-Nancy

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  1. Nancy Upshaw 21 Reputation points
    2022-01-24T18:43:40.16+00:00

    Already read all those before I asked here. Tried the template, couldn't get all to work because the Univ. has some of its own requirements as well, so I'm doing this from scratch, and learning as I go.

    I found the answer on a superuser site. Format the Heading, and format the following paragraph separately, then with the cursor in the Heading text, do Ctl-Alt-Enter to concatenate the two. This puts an embedded style change marker between the two parts. It looks like a paragraph mark but has a dotted box around it. The trick is to properly format the parts separately first, on different lines. Then if the cursor is in the Heading text, the Ctl-Alt-Enter will cause the following paragraph to jump up to the heading line.

    4 people found this answer helpful.
  2. Charles Kenyon 2,966 Reputation points
    2022-01-23T19:37:11.56+00:00
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