Table of Contents Issue

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Tarheel77

I am attempting to fix a document someone else made and I just can't figure
this out. I have three different types of headers/headings that were used.

<heading 2> Part 1: bla bla bla
<Header> Topic 1 in bla bla bla
<Header 2> Issue 1 of Topic 1 in bla bla bla

Now the links that were made work fine, and everything shows up in the TOC.
However, in the TOC when I attempt to reformat the <Header2> it somehow is
linked into <Heading2> and any change I want to apply gets applied to both of
them, not just <Header2>. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Should I
just make a whole new TOC? I have fiddled around with the styles and
formats, however that has not solved the problem. Thanks in advance,
 
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Stefan Blom

If modifying one style changes another, the latter style is based on the
first one. In the Modify Style dialog box, set the "Style based on" option
to "(no style)."
 
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Tarheel77

Stefan,

thanks for helping me with this. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I
modified the "Style based on" exactly as you described, went back to the TOC,
and attempted to format just the sub-sub headings formatted as Header2 and
everything formatted as Heading2 changed as well.

In looking at the details of Header2's format I see this: Widow/Orphan
control, Level 2. Does that help?
 
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Stefan Blom

If you are referring to the actual formatting of TOC entries, that is
controlled by the TOC styles. TOC 1 determines the formatting of level 1
entries, and TOC 2 does the same for level 2 entries, and so on. In other
words, if you want "Header2" and "Heading2" paragraphs to have different
formatting in the TOC, you must map them to different TOC levels.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

And just as an aside, I would avoid naming a heading style Header, as that
style name is reserved for the style used in the document Header.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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Stefan Blom

Good point.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
And just as an aside, I would avoid naming a heading style Header, as that
style name is reserved for the style used in the document Header.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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