I'm very curious about what this means, and why the index is at the front of
your book? (where I imagine no one will know to look for it?)
The Index is hidden in the TOC.
In general, it is a better idea to stick with Word's built-in styles, for
reasons see:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html
If I have interpreted the question correctly:
You can use Heading 1 (with numbering added) for the chapters, and Heading 2
(without numbering) for Foreword, Intro, References, etc, and define Heading
1 and Heading 2 to be identical save for the numbering, and when creating
the TOC, click on Options, and set the TOC level for Heading 1 and Heading 2
to the same number, and then the TOC entries for those will also be
identical. (Then all these headings will look the same to the reader, but
Word can treat them differently).
I am not sure why the Index heading would need a different style from the
Foreword heading, in your book. I guess if you don't want the TOC entry to
have a page number, it needs a different TOC level to automate that, and
thus a different style, which again, you would presumably define as nearly
identical.
When modifying Heading 1 and Heading 2, you will have to be careful of the
"based on" setting, which lets styles inherit settings from each other. It
may in fact be easier to use Heading 1 unnumbered and add the numbering to
Heading 2, as otherwise Heading 2 may inherit the numbering and then you
will have to remove it. I forget the exact dynamics, and what will happen
to Heading 3. You may need to experiment a bit. The general principle of
what I said above will hold, regardless of the exact details of Heading 1 or
Heading 2, etc.
You will also find a list of useful links relative to such documents here,
though possibly more basic than you need right now:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm
If you are using outline numbering within your chapters, see he
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html
In that case, it *might* be better to use a non-built-in style for the Index
and Intro/Foreword/References, to keep them from interfering with the rest
of your numbering hierarchy, though I'm not entirely sure. Same principles
apply.
On 8/3/05 8:51 AM, "Saviourmachine" wrote:
Ah, ah! My fault! I consistenly used the wrong word 'Header' in stead of
'Heading'. Mistake, mistake! Maybe my question does make sense now. I'll
repost another time:
____________________
What's the best way to customize the Headings in my Word document? In my
document I have these headings:
Index
Foreword _______________________ II
Introduction ___________________ III
Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1
Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2
Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3
References ______________________ A
The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a
seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at
the end of the document.
I would like to add to the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x'
like you can see above. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom
'NumberedHeading 1' and changing it list properties? And create another
customized style 'UnnumberedHeading' for the Foreword, Intro and References
chapters? And a 'NotTOCHeading' for the Index header?
Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making 'Heading 1' like
'NumberedHeading 1'. And e.g. 'Heading 6' equal to the style
'UnnumberedHeading' and 'Heading 7' equal to the style 'NotTOCHeading (and
adding respectively excluding these Headings when creating a TOC).
I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using
{IncludeText} fields and wouldn't like to update all normal 'Heading 1' in
all the included documents to something like 'NumberedHeading 1'.
I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned
methods. Many thanks in advance!
--
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