TOC not carrying style formatting

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I have a style that will be used in the TOC called TITLE BOLD. As the name implies, it's all caps and bold. When I type the text that will have the TITLE BOLD style applied to it, I didn't capitalize the text because I new the style would do that for me. When I generate a TOC with the TITLE BOLD style, all my text is lower case!!! The TOC 1 style has the "Automatically update" box checked. I've also tried to generate it when it's unchecked, and it makes no difference. HELP! I have to teach a training class on this in the morning and I don't know why it's happening. Thanks!
Carina
 
Hi,

First, "automatically update" should seldom, if ever, be checked.

Is your TITLE BOLD style a character style? It sounds like it. Anyway, the
style applied to a TOC entry is defined by the TOC styles, not by the style
used in the source text. For instance, I normally want my chapter headings
in 18-point bold centered text. I don't want that formatting applied to my
table of contents!

When I type in a style that has all capitals, I still use appropriate
capitalization in my typing if I want to pick up what I type elsewhere using
a field. A TOC is using a field to pick up information typed elsewhere.

You might want to change your TITLE BOLD style to use small caps instead of
all caps. It looks classier and you'll be able to see if you are
capitalizing words you want to be capitalized in your TOC.

I'm sure this isn't what you wanted to hear, but hope it helps.
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Carina said:
I have a style that will be used in the TOC called TITLE BOLD. As the name
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implies, it's all caps and bold. When I type the text that will have the
TITLE BOLD style applied to it, I didn't capitalize the text because I new
the style would do that for me. When I generate a TOC with the TITLE BOLD
style, all my text is lower case!!! The TOC 1 style has the "Automatically
update" box checked. I've also tried to generate it when it's unchecked, and
it makes no difference. HELP! I have to teach a training class on this in
the morning and I don't know why it's happening. Thanks!
 
TOCs use the TOC 1, TOC 2, etc., styles, which have no built-in character
formatting. If you're applying All Caps formatting to your heading style,
you still need to type in Caps & lowercase so that you get an appropriate
TOC listing. If you want this heading to be represented by All Caps in the
TOC as well, then you need to modify the appropriate TOC style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Carina said:
I have a style that will be used in the TOC called TITLE BOLD. As the name
Click to expand...
implies, it's all caps and bold. When I type the text that will have the
TITLE BOLD style applied to it, I didn't capitalize the text because I new
the style would do that for me. When I generate a TOC with the TITLE BOLD
style, all my text is lower case!!! The TOC 1 style has the "Automatically
update" box checked. I've also tried to generate it when it's unchecked, and
it makes no difference. HELP! I have to teach a training class on this in
the morning and I don't know why it's happening. Thanks!
 
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