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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / February 2004bold tab leaders in TOC
Can I set right-aligned tab leaders (periods) and page numbers in a TOC to be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is either bold or italics? Thank you much... I wish. This is a frequently requested option that is not available in current versions of Word. Add your vote by sending the suggestion to mswish@microsoft.com. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Can I set right-aligned tab leaders (periods) and page numbers in a TOC to > be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is either bold or > italics? Thank you much... Thank you Suzanne... I did send a request to mswish requesting a fix as you suggested. You did, however, spare me many hours of frustration. much appreciated... nicholas j. > I wish. This is a frequently requested option that is not available in > current versions of Word. Add your vote by sending the suggestion to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is either bold or > > italics? Thank you much... Am I missing something here? With Word 2003 at least, the TOC formatting is set by the TOC1 paragraph style. The only time I can get the formatting of the heading style to carry across to the TOC is when I manually format the individual heading to override the formatting of the underlying paragraph style - and even then the leader and the page numbers are unaffected - it is only the TOC entry that carries the manual formatting. You can also set the resulting table to present a common appearance by removing its manual formatting - CTRL+Space (though updating the table will require that you reset that). Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > I wish. This is a frequently requested option that is not available in > current versions of Word. Add your vote by sending the suggestion to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> TOC to be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is >> either bold or italics? Thank you much... We're talking about the TOC styles, Graham. In many cases you want, say, TOC 1 to be bold and larger than TOC 2, but you don't necessary want the leaders and numbers at different levels to be different; the TOC looks much nicer if the leaders and numbers are uniform. The only way to achieve this in current versions is to unlink the TOC and format it manually. But of course that's also the only way to add the extra tab stop (and necessary tab character) to end the leaders short of the numbers, which is another refinement many users like to add. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Am I missing something here? With Word 2003 at least, the TOC formatting is > set by the TOC1 paragraph style. The only time I can get the formatting of [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >> TOC to be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is > >> either bold or italics? Thank you much... Hmmm. I was thrown by the fact that TOC1,2 etc at the levels I used, all format with the same font attributes, and having reformatted them with bold and italic characteristics, I can see where you are coming from, but the basic premise still seems to apply - at least with Word 2003 I find that I can manually edit the leader and numbers without converting the field, although updating the field will ruin this. You can even use replace to reformat the tab (and with it the leader - though maybe not the number) without converting the field. I can also add tabs into the TOC, again with the proviso about updating. I agree that converting the field makes things easier to manage. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > We're talking about the TOC styles, Graham. In many cases you want, > say, TOC 1 to be bold and larger than TOC 2, but you don't necessary [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>> TOC to be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is >>>> either bold or italics? Thank you much... The problem of course comes with updating. The documents I work on undergo a lot of heavy revision, and I have to be able to update the entire TOC (not just page numbers), so unless I defer formatting until I'm sure I'm through with that, then I have to do it many times. And if I wait till the very end, the client can't see (and approve) the formatting at an earlier stage. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Hmmm. > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >>>> TOC to be normal 12-pt text when the Heading for that level is > >>>> either bold or italics? 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