Table of Contents, Unlinking

[carlsondaniel]

Hello All,

I have a frustrating problem. I am working in Word 2007 and I have a
table of contents set up in a template document. One of the sections
requires cutting and pasting information from another word document.
This other document contains graphs and headings. When I copy and
paste into my template, everything looks fine and is easy to format.
However, sometimes the graph headers and sometimes its footers show up
in the table of contents. I cannot find anything that would allow me
turn this stuff off. The headers are usually the chart name and the
footer is the source of the graph. (These are typed in Word). I
tried the Alt F9 and the Ctrl Shift F9 but whenever I update the
table, this stuff come back. Any suggestions would be tremendously
helpful. Thank you for your time in advance.

Dan

 

[grammatim]

Sounds like they're formatted with styles that the ToC is set to pick
up, such as Heading so-and-so. You could set up new styles identical
to the ones they have but with a different name.

 

[cardan]

Sounds like they're formatted with styles that the ToC is set to pick
up, such as Heading so-and-so. You could set up new styles identical
to the ones they have but with a different name.

I am somewhat new to Word but I think I took your advice. I changed
the Heading from Normal to No Spacing and updated the entire TOC. It
seems to be working as it should. Thank you for your help!

 

[grammatim]

I am somewhat new to Word but I think I took your advice. I changed
the Heading from Normal to No Spacing and updated the entire TOC. It
seems to be working as it should.  Thank you for your help!-

I'm glad it worked this time, but captions should have the Caption
style (you'd need something like that if, say, you wanted to add a
List of Tables to your work, or to have them numbered consecutively)
-- you should get familiar with how styles work, and with creating
your own styles for regular use.