You have to realize that text in the TOC is part of a field, so its behavior
is governed by whatever laws are applied to fields. But are we talking about
justifying text or hyphenating it? Those will be two entirely different
things. Keep in mind that the TOC entries, if they include page numbers, are
going to include a right-aligned tab stop and a tab character, which would
prevent them from being justified. And it may be that the style (or the
field) is formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar," which would
prevent hyphenation. When you apply the TOC style to text that is not in a
table of contents, it does not include the tab stop for page numbers (which
is generated dynamically) nor the tab character (ditto), so it would behave
differently outside the TOC. Regardless of whether the headings themselves
are justified, I can see absolutely no defense of trying to have the TOC
entries justified.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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I experimented today on the user's problem. It is really string how
Word behaves. If I cut the text from the TOC field and paste it, World
absolutely refuses to hyphenate it.
If I paste special as text, then apply TOC styles to it,Word justifies
the text. It looks like something get set behind the scenes that
cannot be unset.