Table of Contents Problem

[Animesh Chatterjee]

Hi,

I have a problem with table of contents formatting. I have a document
in which my headings are in Arial font. I have given these headings
outline levels (ie 1, 2 and 3), but have not used the built-in heading
styles. I want the table of contents to be in Times New Roman font.
However, when I create the TOC, all the headings in it appear in
Arial. Even changing the format of the TOC does not change the font.

It seems that Word thinks that I want to preserve the heading formats
in my table of contents. I thought that this problem should be easy to
solve by unchecking "Styles" under "build table of contents from" in
the "table of contents options" dialog box, while leaving "outline
levels" checked. However, this refuses to uncheck. If I return to the
options dialog after pressing OK, "styles" has promptly rechecked
itself!

Is there any way I can solve this, or is it a bug in the program? How
can I get my TOC into Times New Roman font?

Thanks in advance

Animesh

 

[Stefan Blom]

Have you tried to modify the TOC 1, TOC 2 etc. styles that control the
formatting of the table of contents entries (which can be done from
the Index and Tables dialog box)? Does that make a difference?

If it doesn't, the problem is most likely that your headings have
direct font formatting in them, that is, for each of the affected
headings, the font name doesn't come from a style definition but is
applied directly to the heading text. In such a case, the formatting
will be carried over to the corresponding TOC entry.

Remove any direct formatting from the headings and, if necessary,
apply a paragraph style with the desired formatting (including outline
levels).

For more about table of contents creation, please see:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

 

[Animesh Chatterjee]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. The problem is the second one you discussed - I
had applied direct formatting to my headings, which I am now removing
and replacing with styles.

Animesh

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm glad I could help.

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Stefan Blom

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. The problem is the second one you discussed - I
had applied direct formatting to my headings, which I am now removing
and replacing with styles.

Animesh

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