APA 7 in Microsoft Word: Headings, Reference Formatting, and Automatic Tables of Contents

In this video, I show you how to format headings, reference spacing, and an automatic table of contents in line with APA style (7th edition).
I want to alleviate your stress in implementing APA 7 formatting! For questions on using Microsoft Word in academic work, Tweet me at krone_megan. For personal support, please email me at [e-mail] or check out my website: megankrone.com/
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[@DedraMuhammad]

Dr. Krone, your video was excellent. It helped me TREMENDOUSLY. Bravo. Thank you so much for doing this.

[@SimplySoniaWisdomSpeaks]

Awesome video, straightforward and easy to understand. Thanks for sharing Dr. Krone.

[@dr.josellopez6616]

I love your video because it was easy to use and straight to the point :)

[@barrieahmed3233]

Thank you Dr Megan K. for your brief and clear video... It is so easy to follow up on your explanations...

[@FiniteAnarchy]

Thank you for this. Please continue to upload more videos. As someone in the end stage of dissertation, this formatting video is very helpful.

[@TheStigters]

Thanks for walking us through this Megan! So random, but my hubs and I were literally just talking about setting up outlines and headings in Microsoft Word last night! That boggles my mind that you just made a video about it. Apparently our ears were ringing! 😆 Just subscribed to your channel as well, keep up the good work!

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What a funny coincidence! I hope this was helpful! Miss you already!

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Your instruction is clear. I do appreciate this. Thank you for the nice lessons.

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I am so grateful for your help.

[@ValentineIbeka]

Thank you very much. This was time saving for me

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Fantastic! Thank you very much for this!

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Thanks for the video. This was really clear and helpful.😊

[@Mayteredcay]

AMAZING video!! thank you so much!

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[@research135]

that was great. thank you!

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Thanks for such a great video

[@mohitchandra5801]

Thank you. It is really helpful. Request you to add more videos related to formatting, Research design, and statistics.

[@CoachLewis]

What I've found helpful in using styles is to assign a shortcut key to each level (i.e., Alt+1, Alt+2, etc). Then all I have to do is press the assigned shortcut key. It's so much faster.

[@anthonyferrell2030]

Thank you, very helpful

[@manajitdas7619]

Thanks for the video..

[@ChavoRoJa]

Great content

[@danielrayan8783]

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[@SuzieRox]

I found the a way to use heading 4 style and therefore keep the automation of other Word features such as the table of contents without having to mannually enter it. [Format the Heading, and format the following paragraph separately but do not indent the paragraph, then with the cursor in the Heading text (at the end of the heading), press 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.] Hope this helps!

[@SuzieRox]

I should add that you need to add the indent to the heading after formating the two sections and pressing ctl alt enter

[@petarkoljensic7823]

thx it works

[@badernabhan4791]

Really useful. Thanks Megan. Would you please publish a video on how to create a list of figures and tables and how to create captions in APA7. Thank you

[@aimeegardner9736]

Can someone explain how you do the indent for the beginning of each paragraph?

[@Rabina63]

Does the indent count for every paragraph that falls under the same heading? Or is this only needed for the first paragraph of that heading?

[@pjgdba306]

Thank you, you confirmed the Heading Level 4 is not supported in MS Word. Too bad MS can't get on the ball considering the amount of APA-formatted work that is generated. Where can I complain to MS and get them to fix this???

[@Up-To-Speed]

Hi Megan, I have tables and figures in my paper, how do I include those in my table of contents please? My paper needs to be APA 7 formatted. Thanks.

[@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131]

In APA, there should be a separate List of Tables and List of Figures. For those, you use the caption feature in References. I'm still working on a video on that!

[@Brockdorf]

How to you get the TOC to only show level 1 and 2 headings?

[@MM-uw4lc]

Yes, but what happens when you have text after subtitles and you need to show subtitles in the table of contents? Example Section 1. The Property. The property is part if this land.....

[@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131]

Do you mean for Level 4+ headings? Unfortunately, Word doesn't make it easy to add these into the Table of Contents. For APA, the Table of Contents generally only has Levels 1, 2, and sometimes 3, so it's rarely an issue for APA-style papers.

[@Leilazoe]

I'm confused because it says in OWL Purdue writing and all other sites that you should BOLD the reference page

[@randyheninger4707]

APA 7th still requires References on the page is centered and bolded. :) See page 303.

[@jeewac]

Is an abstract necessary for a student paper?

[@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131]

Some faculty members might require it, but APA does not!

[@jeewac]

@@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131 ok thanks 👻

[@pinkvixen686]

Reference is not bold in APA7?

[@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131]

Correct. Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 headings are bold, but "References" is not.

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@@megankronephdwritingcoacha6131 Thank you, for your videos and guidance!

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[@roybautista2241]

too much intro. just direct to the point please next time