TOC - Different font for page number than chapter

Question

I am creating a TOC for my document, and I need the text for heading 3 to be italicized.  But I would like to have all the page numbers be non-italicized. I've found the solution of going in at the end and manually changing the italicized numbers.  That was from 2017, so I was hoping there might be another solution by now, maybe something using field codes?  I have Word 2019.

Thanks!

Nancy

Answer 1

Sorry, there has been no change from 2017 to 2019 so you will need to resort to the same method.

You could raise the issue at http://word.uservoice.com/ or, if it has already been raised there, add your vote to it.

Answer 2

Hi NT14_55

The same option still need to use.

But you can only select the entire line of one of the sub-chapter (your case 3rd sub categories) TOC to change to Italics. It will reflect for rest of them as shown in the picture.

Answer 3

You could use a macro to update the TOC and remove italics from all the page numbers.

Sub UpdateTOC()

  Dim aFld As Field, aTOC As TableOfContents

  Set aTOC = ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents(1)

  aTOC.Update

  For Each aFld In aTOC.Range.Fields

    If aFld.Type = wdFieldPageRef Then aFld.Result.Italic = False

  Next aFld

End Sub

Answer 4

There is a way, but I don't recommend it. Instead of formatting the Heading 3 style as italic, apply the italics to your level 3 headings as direct font formatting. This will result in an italicized TOC entry with unitalicized numbers. The downside is that, if you ever update Heading 3, the italics will be lost.