Copy Word 2010 outline view to new document

Question

I am writing a lengthy article in Word 2010 and want to share an outline of what I have completed thusfar with a colleague. Because I have carefully applied heading 1, 2, etc. styles I can switch to outline view and see exactly what I want to share. I first looked for just how to print the darn thing. Thanks to Martin Liversage's answer to the SU question print in outline format microsoft word I found that, though the print preview indicates otherwise, the standard print command does in fact print the outline view. So I could print that to a PDF and have it at least as a file rather than hard copy. I would really prefer, however, to be able to simply copy the outline (with formatting!) so that I could paste it into an email or into another Word doc, etc. But a standard copy operation on the outline actually copies the whole document.

Is there any way to copy just the outline?

Answer 1

1. Create a character style, let's call it Outline, based on Default Paragraph Font.
2. Right-click Heading 1 style and select all occurences.
3. Click Outline style to apply it.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 for Heading 2, Heading 3, etc.
5. Now right-click Outline style and select all occurences.
6. You have selected your outline. Now you can copy-and-paste it anywhere.