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Changing Roman to Arabic Numerals in the TOC

Anonymous
2018-03-16T11:16:56+00:00

Hi:

I am using MS Office 365 on a Windows 10 laptop.

I see only two automatic TOCs. Both of them display page numbers as Roman numerals even though they are displayed as Arabic numbers in the page footers.

How I do I change the TOC?

BTW, I see only two automatic TPOC styles. I read in one  of the messages that there are as many as 10. I chose to look for other TOC styles online from the menu option but it says it could not find any.

Venki

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Anonymous
2018-03-16T11:51:52+00:00

As far as I know the reason why you can't find any other automatic TOC styles is that Microsoft has never actually put any on their office.com site.

You can create your own default TOC by editing the options in a TOC field directly (use Alt-F9 to display the field code for an existing TOC) and saving that as a building block, but you may also need to pay attention to the definitions of the 9 TOC paragraph styles.

The TOC should pick up the page number format from the format you specify for each document section. That would also be the format displayed as the result of a plain { PAGE } field in a header or footer.

However, if for example you specified the page number format as Roman, but modified the { PAGE } field using a switch (e.g. used { PAGE #0 } or { PAGE \*Arabic }, then

 - the results of the PAGE fields would be in Arabic format, making it look like you have specified the page number format as Arabic, but

 - the page numbers in the TOC would still be in Roman format.

Although that seems rather unlikely, it is the only thing I can think of that would result in this problem, other than some sort of corruption in the program or perhaps the document. 

You can check/modify the "real" page number format by clicking in a header/footer and use the Header & Footer->Page Number->Format Page Numbers... option, bearing in mind that each section can have its page number format set up differently.

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  1. Charles Kenyon 167.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-17T02:01:04+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T19:23:21+00:00

    Thanks, Charles. I'm sure your response would have been just as effective.

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  3. Charles Kenyon 167.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-16T15:29:08+00:00

    Thank you for the detailed analysis, Peter. This is what I suspected when I read this earlier this morning. I returned and found that you had done a better job than I would have in responding.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T14:22:08+00:00

    Thanks Peter.

    Yes, I did not give up and ended up deleting, reinserting the Page field in the right format. Once I updated the TOC, I was able to see the Arabic numbers.

    venki

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