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Right click on a header, select Expand/Collapse Expand All Headings (or Collapse All Headings). Also you may like to have shortcuts for them, so follow these steps: From the File menu at left-top corner, choose Options. In Word Options window from the left column select Customize Ribbon.
Collapse or expand parts of a document. Place your cursor in the heading. On the Home tab, click the arrow in the Paragraph group. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the checkbox next to Collapsed by default.
Word provides a quick way to collapse or expand all headings at once. To do this, right-click on any heading and move your mouse over “Expand/Collapse” on the popup menu. Then, select “Collapse All Headings” from the submenu to collapse all the headings in your document, or “Expand All Headings” to expand all the headings again.

Select the header and the text that you would like to make into a section. (An example header: 'Penn State' and then the text could be a description of the university.) 2. Click the Collapsible Section button. The Collapsible Section dialog box will open. The selected text will display in the Header and Text areas. Review the header's basic settings. There are a couple of aspects of the header that you can edit in the 'Options' and 'Position' sections: Different First Page - Check this box to customize your document's first page's header. It will appear different than the header on the rest of the pages.

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A collapsible element contains a toggle a reader can use to show or hide the element's content. Elements are made collapsible by adding the mw-collapsible class, or alternatively by using the {{Collapse}} template, or its variants {{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}.

Collapsible tables[edit]

The mw-collapsible class can make any element collapsible, but tables are particularly simple to make collapsible. Adding the mw-collapsible class to a table automatically positions the toggle, and selects which parts to collapse.

A common use is to make a collapsible layout table, which always displays an introduction or summary, but hides the rest of the content from immediate view. The introduction or summary is in the first row, and the content is in subsequent rows. The content is then easily accessible by using the 'show' button.

In the examples below, the use of the class wikitable is merely for appearance; it is not needed for mw-collapsible to function.

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More complex data tables can also be collapsible.

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Winter Olympic Games
City	Country
1994	Lillehammer	Norway
1998	Nagano	Japan

Collapsing by default[edit]

Just using the mw-collapsible class leaves the element expanded by default, but it can be collapsed by the reader. It is also possible to make the element collapsed by default, and optionally expanded. There are several methods for doing this, depending on the situations in which you want the element to collapse.

'mw-collapsed'[edit]

Adding the mw-collapsed class will cause the element to always be initially collapsed, no matter what happens around it. It is the simplest method for doing so. Using the examples above:

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Winter Olympic Games
City	Country
1994	Lillehammer	Norway
1998	Nagano	Japan

'autocollapse'[edit]

Adding the autocollapse class causes an element to collapse if there are 2 or more collapsible elements on the page. This threshold might be different on other projects and is customizable. The example below, therefore, collapses because there are numerous collapsible elements on this page.

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Collapsible Headers In Word Forms

'innercollapse' and 'outercollapse'[edit]

Using this pair of classes, it is possible to make an element collapsed by default only when it is contained within a particular outer element. An element with the mw-collapsible and innercollapse classes is collapsed by default if it is contained within an element with the outercollapse class; otherwise, it is uncollapsed by default. This is mainly useful for templates, which are often nested.

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This innercollapse element is

uncollapsed by default

This is an element with the outercollapse class.

This innercollapse element is

collapsed by default

Other notes[edit]

Tables with captions[edit]

A table without a caption will collapse to its first row