TOCs & their Styles

[Keith]

Hi,

What's the best/safest way to modify the formatting of my Table of
Contents? I'm using outline numbering with the built-in Headings,
bookmarks surrounding my chapters and a TOC per chapter. For example,
one of my TOCs looks like:

{ TOC \h \z \t "Heading 2,1,Heading 3,2,Heading 4,3" \b "Chapter1" }

I cannot find the Style "TOC 1" in the "Styles and Formatting" bar
regardless of what option I choose in the Show dropdown (Formatting in
use, Available formatting, Available styles, etc.).

Thanks,
Keith

 

[Keith]

Also, how do I go about changing the indents of all the pieces that
make up the TOC: The heading numbers, the heading text, the page
numbers. I might just be overly worried due to all the headaches
surrounding outline numbering and how to change the format there.

Thanks again,
Keith

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There is only one style for a given TOC entry; that is, the paragraph
number, text, and page number will all be formatted the same.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sounds like you have Word 2002 or above. This can be very frustrating. In
versions before 2002, you can select Format | Style, then select the
appropriate style from "All styles." In Word 2002 and 2003, "All Styles"
doesn't really display *all* styles; for the way to handle this, see
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/sfpane/StylesAndFormattingPane.html. One way
to get to the TOC styles in any version of Word is through the Modify...
button in the TOC dialog.

None of this should be necessary, however, since by default all the TOC
styles are set to update automatically, so any change you make to any TOC
entry at a given level will be applied to the style and propagated to all
the other entries.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Keith,

The "styles and formatting" task pane probably shows the applied character
style ("Hyperlink") if you are in some TOC paragraph?
You can use a trick to make it (and the styles dropdown on the formatting
toolbar) display the paragraph style: Select just the paragraph mark ¶.

Now you should be able to modify that style.

(For the record: I don't like the way Word2002/2003 hides many built-in
styles)

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Keith]

Viola! Perfect. Thanks for the great tip!

Hi Keith,

The "styles and formatting" task pane probably shows the applied character
style ("Hyperlink") if you are in some TOC paragraph?
You can use a trick to make it (and the styles dropdown on the formatting
toolbar) display the paragraph style: Select just the paragraph mark ¶.

Now you should be able to modify that style.

(For the record: I don't like the way Word2002/2003 hides many built-in
styles)

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Keith]

Wonderful, thank you!