bold tab leaders in TOC

[Nickmont]

Can I set right-aligned tab leaders (periods) and page numbers in a TOC to
be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is either bold or
italics? Thank you much...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I wish. This is a frequently requested option that is not available in
current versions of Word. Add your vote by sending the suggestion to
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[Nickmont]

Thank you Suzanne... I did send a request to mswish requesting a fix as you
suggested. You did, however, spare me many hours of frustration. much
appreciated... nicholas j.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Am I missing something here? With Word 2003 at least, the TOC formatting is
set by the TOC1 paragraph style. The only time I can get the formatting of
the heading style to carry across to the TOC is when I manually format the
individual heading to override the formatting of the underlying paragraph
style - and even then the leader and the page numbers are unaffected - it is
only the TOC entry that carries the manual formatting. You can also set the
resulting table to present a common appearance by removing its manual
formatting - CTRL+Space (though updating the table will require that you
reset that).

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

We're talking about the TOC styles, Graham. In many cases you want, say, TOC
1 to be bold and larger than TOC 2, but you don't necessary want the leaders
and numbers at different levels to be different; the TOC looks much nicer if
the leaders and numbers are uniform. The only way to achieve this in current
versions is to unlink the TOC and format it manually. But of course that's
also the only way to add the extra tab stop (and necessary tab character) to
end the leaders short of the numbers, which is another refinement many users
like to add.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Hmmm.

I was thrown by the fact that TOC1,2 etc at the levels I used, all format
with the same font attributes, and having reformatted them with bold and
italic characteristics, I can see where you are coming from, but the basic
premise still seems to apply - at least with Word 2003

I find that I can manually edit the leader and numbers without converting
the field, although updating the field will ruin this. You can even use
replace to reformat the tab (and with it the leader - though maybe not the
number) without converting the field. I can also add tabs into the TOC,
again with the proviso about updating. I agree that converting the field
makes things easier to manage.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The problem of course comes with updating. The documents I work on undergo a
lot of heavy revision, and I have to be able to update the entire TOC (not
just page numbers), so unless I defer formatting until I'm sure I'm through
with that, then I have to do it many times. And if I wait till the very end,
the client can't see (and approve) the formatting at an earlier stage.