TOC auto format problem

[Harley-Davidson]

(Product: MS Office 2007, Word

Hello.

I am having some trouble with creating TOCs in Word. In 2003, you could
simply highlight text, and then apply the TOC level you wanted, and Word
would do it. Now, in 2007, when you apply a TOC level (add text) to a
highlighted word or sentence, Word 2007 changes the formatting of the word.
This is extremely annoying. Another part of that is when the word is part of
a table, Word 2007 changes the SIZE of the cell as well, and nothing I can do
will get it back down to the same size as all of the other cells. So my
question is:

How do I stop Word 2007 from changing the formatting of the sentence I
choose to appear in the TOC?

I've tried changing and modifying lots of options and settings in the TOC
dialog boxes, but to no avail. What I really want to be able to do is just
leave the formatting and style alone, I don't want it to change. The
particular document that I am working with is a 15 page vocabulary list. I
want to have Word 2007 put "nouns" and "verbs" in the TOC, WITHOUT changing
the style in the document. The text that I wish to appear in the TOC has the
same formatting as the rest of the doc. And the worst part is, when I go to
the "home" tab, and change the style of the word I selected to be part of the
TOC back to what it was before Word changed it, it no longer appears in the
TOC.

I do not want my TOC to be defined based on the styles I use in my document.
I want to be able to select any word or sentence and add it as text in a TOC,
even if that word is a normal word in a paragraph. Call me strange, but this
is what I need for my document uses.

Thank you very much for any help you can give,

HD

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Select the text and press Alt+Shift+O to create a TC field.

 

[Harley-Davidson]

That seems to solve the problem, except for the fact that the text doesn't
show up in the TOC up at the top of the page. After doing what you
instructed, I see some text that looks like this: {TC "Regular Verbs" fB 1"2}
That's not exactly what it looks like, but its close. This is all good and
fine, because it didn't change the format of the word, but it didn't show up
in the TOC after updating the entire table, not just the numbers.

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have to check the box for "Table entry fields" in the TOC Options
dialog (or add the \f switch to the TOC field code).

 

[Harley-Davidson]

Okay. The /f switch was already in place, but by checking the "table entry
fields" box I was able to solve the problem. I think part of the difficulty I
had was the doc I was working with was orginally created in Word 2003, with a
TOC, and then I imported it into Word 2007 and tried to continue using the
same TOC. I couldn't find any options to make those same changes in an
already existing TOC, so I ended up creating a new one, but becuase Word 2007
saved all of my earlier entries, it worked out okay.

Thank you very much for your quick response!

HD