Table of Contents Issue

[Tarheel77]

I am attempting to fix a document someone else made and I just can't figure
this out. I have three different types of headers/headings that were used.

<heading 2> Part 1: bla bla bla
<Header> Topic 1 in bla bla bla
<Header 2> Issue 1 of Topic 1 in bla bla bla

Now the links that were made work fine, and everything shows up in the TOC.
However, in the TOC when I attempt to reformat the <Header2> it somehow is
linked into <Heading2> and any change I want to apply gets applied to both of
them, not just <Header2>. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Should I
just make a whole new TOC? I have fiddled around with the styles and
formats, however that has not solved the problem. Thanks in advance,

 

[Stefan Blom]

If modifying one style changes another, the latter style is based on the
first one. In the Modify Style dialog box, set the "Style based on" option
to "(no style)."

 

[Tarheel77]

Stefan,

thanks for helping me with this. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I
modified the "Style based on" exactly as you described, went back to the TOC,
and attempted to format just the sub-sub headings formatted as Header2 and
everything formatted as Heading2 changed as well.

In looking at the details of Header2's format I see this: Widow/Orphan
control, Level 2. Does that help?

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you are referring to the actual formatting of TOC entries, that is
controlled by the TOC styles. TOC 1 determines the formatting of level 1
entries, and TOC 2 does the same for level 2 entries, and so on. In other
words, if you want "Header2" and "Heading2" paragraphs to have different
formatting in the TOC, you must map them to different TOC levels.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And just as an aside, I would avoid naming a heading style Header, as that
style name is reserved for the style used in the document Header.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Good point.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

And just as an aside, I would avoid naming a heading style Header, as that
style name is reserved for the style used in the document Header.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org