TOC - formatting, styles, fonts

[Listrom]

Hi!
I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user
close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard
font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it
doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to
forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the
document.
When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit
Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do?

Listrom

 

[Stefan Blom]

Which style(s) did you modify? The TOC styles? The Normal style?
Either should work, because (by default) the TOC styles inherit font
formatting from Normal. Anyway, once the styles have the proper
formatting, you could select any text in the template and press
Ctrl+SpaceBar, in order to get rid of any direct formatting that might
be overriding this.

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[Listrom]

In Normal, standard style font is Arial, but if I choose Normal, I loose the
indents and the other formatting of the TOC. I have marked the TOC, chosen
edit, then the button TOC and then again (under the TOC-tab) change. I then
get the list of TOC styles, and I have chosen change for Cont1, and changed
font to Arial.
But, I have also chosen to make hyperlinks of the content in the TOC. Does
this have anything to say? Will it then be formatted with hyperlink-style?
While I was writing: I became aware of the fact that have to change Cont2,
cont3 and so on, corresponding to the levels I have in my TOC.
Is that correct?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I am confused. There are no built-in styles named Cont1, Cont2, etc. If this
is an automatic TOC (TOC field), it is using Word's TOC 1, TOC 2, etc.,
styles, and those are the ones that need to be modified. As Stefan pointed
out, however, by default the TOC styles are based on Normal; if you have
modified the Normal style, the TOC styles should be reflecting the change.
But there are two other factors that may be involved here:

1. Sometimes style inheritance doesn't work properly if you modify the base
style after using a style based on it, so it's possible that the TOC styles
could still be TNR even though you've modified Normal. And, allthough the
TOC styles are set to update automatically, I have found that this affects
paragraph formatting only. Font formatting must be modified explicitly in
the Modify Style dialog.

2. Any direct formatting applied to the headings being used to build the TOC
will be reflected in the TOC entries. If you have applied TNR to any of the
headings as direct font formatting (not part of the heading style), this
will show up in the TOC.

Hyperlinking the TOC should not be an issue, as Word suppresses the
Hyperlink character style for TOC entries unless you unlink the TOC, at
which point the entries (infuriatingly) become blue and underlined even
though they are no longer hyperlinked.

 

[Listrom]

Thank you! Sorry about confusing you. I do not have an english office
version, so I had to take a guess on the style names. Normal was modified
long before this, but the issue was that I didn't know I had to modify
several styles, I thought one style was selected for all the text in TOC. I
have not done any direct formatting either.
It is working now, after modifying the other styles.
The information you gave was very useful!

Listrom


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