Parallel Heading to Heading 1

[Guest]

Dear MS Word sages, I am working on my Ph. D. dissertation. It doesn't
follow a standard dissertation format. It will have 8 chapters that are
divided into three parts, "Part I," "Part II", etc., plus it will have a
table of contents, list of terms, preface, and at the end, a "List of
Propositions." I have used "Heading 1" to be reserved for the chapter titles.
Each chapter begins with Heading 1, and says, "Capter 1:..." when I group
them together in a long document (hopefully), they will sequence into
"Chapter, 1, 2, 3...." My question is how can I insert the section dividers,
i.e., "Part I," "Part II," etc. In terms of the Hierarchy of the headings,
the "Parts" could be considered "higher" than the chapters, or parallel to
them. This is important, because I want them appear in the proper place in
the Table of Contents. Thanks very much.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

1. Use Heading 1 for the part titles and Heading 2 for the chapter titles.

2. Use a special style for the part title and Heading 1 for the chapter
titles but map the Part Title style to TOC 1 and Heading 1 to TOC 2. The TOC
will always be in chronological order, so that should not be a problem.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Daiya Mitchell]

I think I did Suzanne's #1, in this situation. You may also want to check
this page of links re using Word for long documents:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

I would consider a Part to be indisputably higher than an Chapter, by the
way, and not parallel.

 

[Guest]

Yes, you are right, a "Part" is higher than a "chapter." I checked out your
document and it looks great. Thanks.
Bob

 

[Guest]

Thanks. The key is the idea of mapping out the TOC. I was thinking that
Heading 1 had to be the topmost, but your posting helped me see that that
need not be the case. Thanks again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's a little easier to create the TOC if you use the built-in heading
styles in their natural order, but using the TOC Options you can set any
style to any level in the TOC. This can be very handy for devious purposes
such as omitting numbering from, say, Heading 1 and Heading 4 and leaving it
for Headings 2 and 3 (which can't be done unless Heading 1 and Heading 4 are
mapped to adjacent TOC levels). More at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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