Hi Michele:

After all their hard work to bring local formatting into the TOC, and YOU
want to get rid of it :-)

The simplest way is simply to select the TOC after you have generated it and
hit Ctrl + SpaceBar to remove the extra formatting.

I wouldn't use hidden paragraph marks for the same reason you mention, but
not only do users freak out, so do documents -- it's a source of document
corruption, particularly if you use hidden paragraph marks in combination
with tracked changes.

I would be tempted to use a Character style to apply the Underline, and set
the Numbering font bold, the way you are doing.  That way you get a bold
number and an underlined lead-in without having those properties applied to
the rest of the paragraph.

The bold and underline will be copied through to the TOC, teach the users to
remove it with Control + Spacebar.  You also need to warn them to turn off
"Automatically Update Fields" in Tools>Options>Print.  That has other
implications: their page numbers may be wrong, and so might their
cross-references.

The other way around is to use TC Fields.  Look them up in the Help.
Because the text within the TC field is independent of the text in the
heading itself, you can format it any way you like, which means you can use
local formatting in the heading.

I shy away from TC fields because they are a lot more work to put them in,
and a much larger user training requirement to get them to use them reliably
in service.  However, if you can train your users to use them correctly,
they result in fully automatic and reliable TOCs and were invented to solve
exactly this sort of problem!

Hope this helps

On 26/7/05 4:08 AM, in article
1122314930.445554.320040@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Michele"
<Malcorn@mcdonaldhopkins.com> wrote: