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Janet
Hello -- I teach technical writing classes online. As a part of one of my
classes, I teach people how to use paragraph styles and generate a TOC. One
of my students is using Word 2003 and having problems that result in a dialog
box I've never seen being opened. She says that when she clicks OK on the
Table of Contents tab to generate the TOC, a dialog box opens that tells her
the following:
To add or remove items in the TOC: 1) Select text in your document 2) Click
the outline level in the toolbar to make the text appear in the table of
contents.
She's sure that she's applying her paragraph styles correctly and she
checked the Table of Contents Options dialog box to make sure that the first
three Heading styles are selected.
She says that in response to the above message, she "found the 'outline
level' box in the upper left corner of the toolbar and clicked onto "level 1"
instead of "body text" where it was set by default. Then my info magically
appeared in the TOC format, including the title."
Her biggest concerns are that 1) her title, which comes in front of the TOC,
is added after the TOC near the bottom of the next page, and 2) the words
Table of Contents are included in her TOC.
We obviously have several things going on here. My biggest question is what
is this dialog box that she's seeing after she clicks OK on the Table of
Contents tab? What triggers it and how do we shut it off? Could it be the
reason for her other problems? Thank you for your help.
classes, I teach people how to use paragraph styles and generate a TOC. One
of my students is using Word 2003 and having problems that result in a dialog
box I've never seen being opened. She says that when she clicks OK on the
Table of Contents tab to generate the TOC, a dialog box opens that tells her
the following:
To add or remove items in the TOC: 1) Select text in your document 2) Click
the outline level in the toolbar to make the text appear in the table of
contents.
She's sure that she's applying her paragraph styles correctly and she
checked the Table of Contents Options dialog box to make sure that the first
three Heading styles are selected.
She says that in response to the above message, she "found the 'outline
level' box in the upper left corner of the toolbar and clicked onto "level 1"
instead of "body text" where it was set by default. Then my info magically
appeared in the TOC format, including the title."
Her biggest concerns are that 1) her title, which comes in front of the TOC,
is added after the TOC near the bottom of the next page, and 2) the words
Table of Contents are included in her TOC.
We obviously have several things going on here. My biggest question is what
is this dialog box that she's seeing after she clicks OK on the Table of
Contents tab? What triggers it and how do we shut it off? Could it be the
reason for her other problems? Thank you for your help.