TOC formatting crazy

[Regina]

I'm using Word 2002, made sure that my headings didn't
have any tabs in them, went through the 4 TOC levels to
make sure the tab left enough room for the heading number,
i.e., 4.1.13 would have a .5 tab for level 3 TOC, however,
I'm still getting crazy formatting as follows (1 is the
page #)
4.1 1
4.1.1 File Naming Convention 1

Any suggestions?
thanks in advance,
Regina

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

Regina,

Does the TOC style have a right-aligned tab set equal to the distance
between the left and right margins? If not, it should. If it already does,
post the exact TOC code from your document (Alt + F9 to toggle display of
fields between result and code). The culprit may be what switches have or
have not been appended to the field code.

Regards,
Chad

 

[Stephanie]

Hi, Regina,

I wouldn't bet on the field code being the issue. Could
be, but I suspect it's nothing more than a funky
formatting nit causing you that unpleasant stress

If you haven't resolved this yet -- feel free to email
the document and I'll be happy to look at it.

Stephanie Krieger
author of Microsoft Office Document Designer
email: (e-mail address removed)
blog: www.arouet.net

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Regina

I'm using Word 2002, made sure that my headings didn't
have any tabs in them, went through the 4 TOC levels to
make sure the tab left enough room for the heading number,
i.e., 4.1.13 would have a .5 tab for level 3 TOC, however,
I'm still getting crazy formatting as follows (1 is the
page #)
4.1 1
4.1.1 File Naming Convention 1

Any suggestions?

Whenever I update my Table of Contents it acquires unwanted tabs, and I
have to press Ctrl+Q to get rid of them (by Dave Rado)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCJasonTabs.htm

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

I used to get those unwanted tab sets, too, until I started adding the "\w"
(Preserve tabs) switch to my TOC fields. Then the behavior was suppressed
and the only tab sets in my TOCs are those I define in the TOC styles.

Regards,
Chad

 

[Robert M. Franz]

Hi Chad

I used to get those unwanted tab sets, too, until I started adding the "\w"
(Preserve tabs) switch to my TOC fields. Then the behavior was suppressed
and the only tab sets in my TOCs are those I define in the TOC styles.

Sounds good, that switch was most probably not there yet when Jason was
fighting with his TOCs.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Georg Hodosi]

Hi,

I have a long document with headings in 5 levels. I would like to have:

- at the beginning of document a table of content on 3 levels
- at the beginning of each chapter a table of content for that chapter with
all levels for that chapter

Is this possible to do? (I have Word 2000, but could swap to newer)
If not is there an other way of structuring the information?

Thank you for all help
Regards
Georg

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, this is quite possible. See the section on "A partial table of
contents" in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm