So you have a TOC now, but it isn't correctly formatted? Note that any
font formatting applied directly to headings (via toolbar buttons or
dialog boxes) will reflect in the table of contents. If you modify the
heading styles (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...ifyAStyle.html) the way you
like them, then you won't have this problem.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Hilary" wrote in message
...
"Arcana for the sake of Arcana"--with apologies to you, Mr. Blom, to
Ms.
Barnhill, and to the other gentleman who attempted to help...

I did exactly as you said. I Selected NOTHING and left the cursor
blinking
at the head of the document. I then applied Heading 1 to the first
entry
(line of text), then the second, third, fourth, etc. All that
happened was
that the font changed.

However, I then went to InsertIndex and TablesEtc.... and applied
a TOC.
The enlarged, engorged font remained, but a table of contents *did*
generate,
right aligned, with the enlarged, engorged "Heading 1" entries
repeated
beneath it.

I find this inexcusably and ridiculously convoluted. Maybe it's
just me,
but that's how I feel. It's as if the authors of WORD wanted a
"secret club"
only those with a LOT of free time or advanced experience (such as
the MVP
designation) could use. Look! It's taken me three days simply to
begin to
*approach* an answer I could implement by myself.

Again, thank you greatly for your time.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Make sure that when you apply headings, you either have nothing
selected (so that you see the insertion point blinking) or you
have
whole paragraphs selected; otherwise, Word won't apply the heading
styles but only their font formatting to text.

Also, if you inserted the TOC before applying heading styles, you
have
to update the TOC. To do this, right-click the TOC and choose
Update
Field. If prompted, make sure to update the entire table.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Hilary" skrev i meddelandet
...
I have gone to Ms. Kelly's page multiple times, but when I
follow
her
instructions about Selecting All text, then applying the Heading
1
(or 2, or
3) Style to it, all that happens is that the Font changes. No
Table
of
Contents appears.

In addition, I repeatedly get the BOLD error message *Error! No
table of
contents entries found.*

This shouldn't be as difficult as it is, but thank you for
taking
the time
to respond.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

See:

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Hilary" wrote in message
...
(Thank you to Doug Robbins.)

I spent the better part of a splendid Memorial Day trying to
create
my first
"automatic" TOC. I copied a "hand-made" TOC to a New
Document,
then
went
through the InsertTables and Fields [this is WORD
2000](rest
of
the stuff).

Each time I did this and tried to apply the template to my
Pasted
selection,
an error message in BOLD showed up saying basically "There
is No
Text to
Apply Formatting To" (or something to that affect.

If you could tell me what I did wrong, I would very much
appreciate
it. And
again, I'm asking for the titles of any hard-copy books or
websites
where
mastering the more complex and technical aspects of WORD are
taught.
I
Firefox-ed a page that literally calls itself "Complex
Aspects
of
WORD," but
for my purposes, I would appreciate a book or interactive
CD.

Thank you.