Table of Contents inserts bold type

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Bernie

When inserting a table of contents, section headings are displayed and
printed in normal type, but Titles are in bold. I have changed them
back to regular every way I know how, but when Word updates the table
for printing, the bold reappears. It happens only on one document.
Any ideas? if necessary, I will inlcude the example in a reply.

Bernie
 
Hi Bernie
When inserting a table of contents, section headings are displayed and
printed in normal type, but Titles are in bold. I have changed them
back to regular every way I know how, but when Word updates the table
for printing, the bold reappears. It happens only on one document.
Any ideas? if necessary, I will inlcude the example in a reply.
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Please don't. :-)

What styles are you using for section headings and Titles, respectively.
Is either of these bold (the style)? Is either of the paragraphs bold
through direct formatting?

Try to select the first character of your TOC (this will in fact select
the whole TOC). Hit SHIFT-F9, to reveal its field code. What exactly
does it say?

Greetings
Robert
 
Robert

Thanks for your help.

Both the TOC and the Titles have formatting set to bold, as that is the
way they should appear in the document, however, only the titles appear
bold in the table of contents. The field code for the TOC is as
follows:

{ TOC\o "1-3"\h \z \t "Heading 7.1.Header.1"}

Bernie
 
Robert

Thanks for your help.

Both the TOC and the Titles have formatting set to bold, as that is the
way they should appear in the document, however, only the titles appear
bold in the table of contents. The field code for the TOC is as
follows:

{ TOC\o "1-3"\h \z \t "Heading 7.1.Header.1"}

Bernie
 
The TOC reflects direct formatting applied to headings. If bold is part of
the style definition for the headings, then it will not show up in the TOC,
but if you have applied it as direct formatting, it will. If you want the
TOC entry to be bold as well, change the definition of the appropriate TOC
style.

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

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Hi Bernie
Both the TOC and the Titles have formatting set to bold,
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And you are sure that the formatting is done through the style only, and
not applied directly (see Suzanne's answer)?

as that is the
way they should appear in the document, however, only the titles appear
bold in the table of contents. The field code for the TOC is as
follows:

{ TOC\o "1-3"\h \z \t "Heading 7.1.Header.1"}
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OK. Using "Header" for a title and (apparently) in the body text area is
rather creative a solution. Nevertheless it should work, provided that
there is no direct formatting involved. What you tell us strongly
suggests that either "Heading 7" or "Header" is not set to bold, but
that the individual entries are manually set so (IOW: you assign the
same TOC level to entries in both styles, so they should look the same).

HTH
Robert
 
Suzanne and Robert

Thank you very much. It worked.
Microsoft really has some features that can trap the unweary.

Bernie Joiner
 

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