Can colons be used at the end of a Heading?

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I am not an English major but I do quite a bit of reading and I find this used often and therefore would say it is acceptable.

I would only use a colon in a heading if I were going to follow it with items in a bulleted or numbered list. If I were going to follow it with a paragraph of text, I wouldn’t use a colon. The colon represents more of a connection between the heading and the text than would be valid in that case.

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I would go with janb’s answer. I am not a grammer goddess. I am an everything else goddess, just not grammar.

Yes. Except when:

1). It isn’t appropriate.
2.) You run out of colons.

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