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Default TOC and formatting problems in "highly designed" doc for distribut

Hi AMX,

TOCs are only for building Tables of Contents, and your document has to be
properly structured for this to work (eg through the use of Word's Heading
Styles).

For the body of your document, you can create various relationships between
Styles (eg hitting Enter at the end of a Heading1 Style paragraph will
start a new paragraph in the Heading2 Style) but, even so, you can't:
a) count on these relationships always holding true
b) force users to adhere to this scheme
c) prevent users from taking a paragraph in one Style and inappropriately
reformatting it to look like another.

Cheers

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macropod
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"AMX" wrote in message
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Hi, Ive been assigned the task of preparing a Word document which

currently
has Text Boxes as opposed to Word Columns and various elements which bleed
off the page.

The doc is for distribution within a company network and should enable the
final users to type/paste into the doc and have the look and feel and text
styles/formatting update automatically.

Ive been told a TOC can do this, but Im really not sure if this is

possible
the way the document currently stands.

Can anyone recommend any tutorials or help?