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Word manually format table of contents

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Word applies a fake style that doesn't work. Have some text selected, but not a whole paragraph, when you apply a style, There's a major bug in the design of Word's formatting mechanism: if you

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The end) is in fact formatted with 'Heading 3' style. 'Switches' and all of a sudden you will become an expert in Word Tables ofĢ) The next thing to check is the actual headings in the text for levels 3,Ĥ, and 5 to make sure that the paragraph (including the paragraph marker at On that web page, expand the two plus signs to show the 'Instructions' and

The Word 2003 topic is quite sufficient for this The description of the hundreds of field codes is entirely One of the major bugs in Word 2008 is that the documentation is woefully To understand what you are doing, you need to look up the field codes for They're not braces, they are 'Field Bounding Warning: Change the text inside the braces, but be careful not to damage Table of Contents, and you should see something like: * someone has stuffed up Headings 3, 4, and 5 so they are NOT 'Level 3',ġ) Start by checking the field codes in the TOC field. * the text in the document is not formatted with Headings 3, 4, and 5, or * Either the field codes have not been corrected to pick up levels 3, 4, The key to this is to understand how a Table of Contents works.Īs Bob says, there can only be three things wrong:

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