Where can I get help with TOC?

[Laura]

I would like to customize the Table of Contents, that is
change line spacing and not show page numbers for sub
headings. Is this possible?
I have Word 97 and am just getting educated to using
styles. The headings I want to show without page numbers
are all "Heading 2" style.
This is the first time I've created a Table of Contents,
though I have been using word for small documents for many
years.
Laura

 

[macropod]

Hi Laura,

Changing the line spacing is easy enough - simply select the TOC level that
you want to change and change it's style formatting.

As for the page numbers, I don't believe you can have some TOC entries with
page numbers and others without. There is a workaround, though. For the TOC
styles for which you don't want to page numbers to appear, simply format
them so that the right-aligned tab that controls the page number is off the
right-hand side of the page. Make sure they don't have dot leaders for the
tabs also.

Cheers

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your workaround is not necessary. The \n switch takes care of this; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For a primer, see http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html and
http://office.microsoft.com/trainin...ID=RC011356771033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011356771033

For fine-tuning, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See http://addbalance.com/usersguide/complex_documents.htm for directions on
creating/formatting a TOC.

 

[macropod]

Hi Suzanne,

Thanks.

Cheers

Your workaround is not necessary. The \n switch takes care of this; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

 

[Gail Chesler]

For a saved file with a TOC generated on another machine by another user,
while logged in as myself, I get a one-line TOC that looks like this

TABLE OF CONTENTS


{ TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \n 1-1}

If I log in as someone else, the full 32 line table of contents appears.

Amazingly, I tried to copy and paste the bracketed text above and the full
TOC appeared in this message.

Could this be a registry problem?

Yesterday, my IT professional removed and reinstalled Word (the whole suite
as well).

 

[Mike]

Under Tools and Options, in the View section, you can select to display
Field Codes (that's what it's doing). If you *uncheck* this, and than save
the document, it will display normally. You can also toggle these codes by
pressing ALT+F9.

Mike