Fonts in two different tables of content - need help fast!

[JefftheTechWriter]

I have a table of contents and a table of figures in the same document. I
want to change the font for TOC1 in the table of figures from bold to
regular. However, when I do this, it changes the font TOC1 in the table of
contents as well. I've done this before on other documents the same way
(after creating a table of contents, assign a new style for table captions
and make the table of figures based on that new style) and have never had
this problem. This is a government deliverable, so I'd appreciate any help
asap. Thanks so much.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a table of contents and a table of figures in the same
document. I want to change the font for TOC1 in the table of figures
from bold to regular. However, when I do this, it changes the font
TOC1 in the table of contents as well. I've done this before on other
documents the same way (after creating a table of contents, assign a
new style for table captions and make the table of figures based on
that new style) and have never had this problem. This is a government
deliverable, so I'd appreciate any help asap. Thanks so much.

TOC1 is a _style_ applied to level-1 items in all TOCs automatically. If you
change the style's definition, of course it's going to affect all instances
in the document where the same style is applied.

You can manually apply direct formatting or a character style to the entries
one TOC or the other, but that will be removed the next time you update the
TOC field. The workaround for that is to lock (Ctrl+F11) or unlink
(Ctrl+Shift+F9) the TOC fields -- the difference is that a locked field can
be unlocked (Ctrl+Shift+F11) to be updated, but an unlinked field has been
permanently converted into plain text.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To add to what Jay has said, a TOF by default uses the Table of Figures
style rather than TOC 1. Are you creating your TOF using the Table of
Figures tab in the Insert | Reference and Tables dialog?