Solved: Document map problem

[Ric Barline]

This is a follow-up to a question that I posted a few days ago (see
Word thinks some styles are headings - October 9) about Word all of a
sudden for no apparent reason making all my captions show up as level
1 headings in the document map (only built-in headings are supposed
to show up there). My post was kindly answered by Clive, who
explained that Word sometimes interprets paragraphs that are on a
single line as headings, if you have document map open. He
recommended not using document map, but I love document map, so I
persisted.

Well, I just found the fix. All I had to do was go back to each caption
and reapply the Caption style, and it immediately disappeared from the
document map. Apparently somehow the style definition gpt goofed up
and document map thought it was a heading, and reapplying the
Caption style fixed the problem. Live and learn!

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Ric:

Welcome to Document Map NOW you know why I won't use it

Document Map uses a little-known property of a paragraph called "Outline
Level" to do its business.

Re-applying the style will re-apply the correct outline level.

Document Map will then screw it up again at some random time in the future


The only way to make your document proof from Document Map's fiddling is to
use the built-in Heading styles for your headings, and to assign Level 9 to
your captions. Document map will leave the level alone if it finds it set
to other than "Body Text".

Not a very nice piece of software design in my book...

Are you sure you couldn't make friends with Outline View? It's much more
powerful once you get to know it

Cheers

This is a follow-up to a question that I posted a few days ago (see
Word thinks some styles are headings - October 9) about Word all of a
sudden for no apparent reason making all my captions show up as level
1 headings in the document map (only built-in headings are supposed
to show up there). My post was kindly answered by Clive, who
explained that Word sometimes interprets paragraphs that are on a
single line as headings, if you have document map open. He
recommended not using document map, but I love document map, so I
persisted.

Well, I just found the fix. All I had to do was go back to each caption
and reapply the Caption style, and it immediately disappeared from the
document map. Apparently somehow the style definition gpt goofed up
and document map thought it was a heading, and reapplying the
Caption style fixed the problem. Live and learn!

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