There are different "styles" (formats) of TOC selectable from the Insert |
Reference | Index and Tables dialog. If you want something beyond the plain
vanilla TOC (which you clearly don't), you can choose from among Classic,
Distinctive, Fancy, Modern, etc. The "From template" selection is the one
that uses the TOC styles you have defined (if you have modified the TOC
styles).

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"crando" wrote in message
...
Suzanne, that worked perfectly! As usual, when I have a problem it's
because
there was one small thing I did not know. In this case, I had thought that
the TOC levels were different styles of TOC rather than different levels
in
one table. I set everything as I wanted and added to template and it
worked
and I feel like going dancing!

Crando

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The format you describe is the default for the TOC styles (in every
particular), but they do pick up any font formatting that has been
applied
to directly to the associated headings, so be sure that any font
formatting
is defined in the heading style. For more, see
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

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"crando" wrote in message
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I am working with some long documents. They are very carefully
formatted
(I
spent hours on this) but I cannot get TOC to format as I want it to.
The
TOC's vary from document to document, but no matter what TOC number,
options
or modifications I select I can't get them to change in a given
document.
The
documents have headers at various levels (1 - 5), all of which I want
in
the
TOC. This is what I want: Times New Roman, no bold, italics, caps,
small
caps, just follow capitalization as it appears in the document. I want
dots
(...) from the title to the page number. Page numbers should be
aligned on
the right and should be hyperlinked. Headers should indent slightly
from
one
level to the next. Sounds simple but I have spent literally hours
inserting
TOC's over and over.
Here is an illustration of what I want (obviously it's not hyperlinked
but
you will get the idea) on all documents:

Header One


.................................................. ...........................
..
.................1
Another Header One


.................................................. ...........................
..
.....2
Header


Two............................................... ..........................
...................2
This is the Header


Two............................................... ..........................
...3
Header Three


.................................................. ...........................
..
..........3
Header


Four.............................................. ..........................
..............4
Header


Five.............................................. ..........................
...........4
And Another Header


One............................................... ..........................
...5