TOC Format Settings

Question

I cannot figure out for the life of me how I created the look of this TOC. All of my headings (style 1) are the same but each of the sections listed in the TOC are bolded with subsequent headings withing the section not bolded and indented. I can't figure out how to recreate this! When I go to update my TOC now it bolds all headings and doesn't indent for headings within a section. Please help.

Answer 1

The only way that paragraphs that are all formatted with Heading 1 style could be shown with TOC 2 in the TOC -- and this is highly improbable -- is if the TOC entries inside the sections were manually changed to TOC 2. And that change would disappear, returning all the entries to TOC 1, if the TOC was updated (using the "Update entire table" choice in the popup). In fact, it sounds like that's what happened to you.

I'll repeat that the headings inside the sections should be formatted with Heading 2. Then the TOC would appear the way it used to -- with TOC 1 for the section titles and TOC 2 for the other entries -- automatically. If you really want the Heading 2 headings to look the same as the Heading 1 ones, you can modify the definition of the Heading 2 style to match the definition of Heading 1 style (although as a reader I would find that confusing). The only difference between the two styles would then be the value of the Outline Level, which is not visible except in the TOC.

Answer 2

Not the Heading styles, but the TOC styles!

TOC Tips and Tricks by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP

You want to modify a second-level entry in the TOC, TOC 2.

You will need to display the Style Pane to see this, it is not in the [Quick] Styles Gallery on the Home tab.

Answer 3

The look of TOC entries is governed primarily by the nine TOC n styles.

See TOC Tips and Tricks by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP.

Each level is handled by a separate style.

You can change the formatting of an entry of a given level and the style for that will change to match (at least with default settings).

Answer 4

What you're missing is that all of the headings inside each section should be formatted with Heading 2 style, not Heading 1. The Heading 2 style includes a setting (in its Paragraph dialog) of Outline Level 2, which makes the TOC format its entries with style TOC 2.

Answer 5

Hmmm well what am I missing because below are the style windows for each of the headings and they are identical.