Writing Your Business Plan

Moving a chapter or section in the plan outline

1 min. read Updated May 15, 2026

The plan outline is highly flexible. You can change the order of the chapters within the plan and the order of sections within a chapter. You can even move sections and topics from one chapter to another.

What are chapters and sections?

To see an editable view of your outline, click on the Plan section:

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In this view, you will see the same outline with the chapters and sections in place. If you select a Chapter or Section, LivePlan will jump to that selection in the editing field.

Plan UX - Section Selected

Changing the organization of your plan outline

LivePlan's business plan outline is fully customizable. You can build a plan that reflects your unique business and market by adding, removing, renaming, and rearranging chapters and sections.

Moving a chapter, section, or topic in the plan outline

The plan outline is highly flexible. You can change the order of the chapters within the plan and the order of sections within a chapter. You can even move sections and topics from one chapter to another.

Moving a chapter

In the Plan section, click on the chapter heading you'd like to move, and drag the chapter or section to the new location:

NUX - Move Chapter

When you move a chapter, all the sections in that chapter will move along with it. The change will save automatically.

Moving a section

In the Plan section, click on the section heading you'd like to move, and drag the chapter or section to the new location:

NUX - Move Section

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