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Stopping heading numbering formatting showing up in table of conte
G'day,
have been stumped for a while now by this problem. I have a nice heading style in my document that is of this format: Chapter 1 Chapter Title The Chapter Title appears on the next line because the font is large enough that it wraps to the next line since it won't all fit on 1. The "Chapter 1" font is white, bold, uppercase, engraved and size 36 (I have it on top of a black image background). The "Chapter 1" text is created from heading 1 level 1 numbering, whereas the "chapter title" text is what I typed in for that specific heading. The "Chapter Title" font is black, bold, lowercase and shadowed. When I create a table of contents, this heading shows up like this: Chapter 1 Chapter Title.....................7 which is fine, EXCEPT the "Chapter 1" appears in size 12, white, engraved font. The "Chapter Title" part appears in normal black 12 size font, which is good. I have spent many hours trying to get the TOC to insert the numbering part of this heading ("Chapter 1") as normal text. When you change the TOC 1 style, it changes how the "Chapter Title" font is displayed, but only changes aspects of the "Chapter 1" part. For instance, if I set the TOC 1 style to be embossed, this will change the ENTIRE "Chapter 1 Chapter Title" text in the TOC to embossed. But if I don't set any of the formatting in that column of the font dialog box for the TOC 1 style (so don't emboss, engrave, outline or shadow it), the "Chapter 1" text stays as white, size 12 engraved (so like a size 12 version of the numbering in the actual heading), and the "Chapter title" text appears as it should according to the TOC 1 style - size 12 black normal text. How can I get the "Chapter 1" part of the text in the TOC to be normal, size 12 text like it should be according to the TOC 1 style. When I position the mouse inside the "Chapter 1" text in the TOC, it says it is TOC 1 style, but when I right click and look at the font, it is engraved. By 'numbering' I mean the "Chapter 1" part of the text - which was created using the numbering dialog box, with text "Chapter" followed by the number field. The font of the numbering part of the heading was set by going into the numbering dialog box and setting the font for it to size 36, white, engraved, uppercase etc. |
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TOC entries pick up any direct font formatting, that is, any formatting that
is not part of the paragraph style. I can only assume that Word is interpreting your number formatting as direct formatting because it is *not* the default paragraph font, even though it is, in a sense, defined as part of the style (I assume). If in fact the numbering was *not* defined as part of the style, then that would be the first approach to take. For more on this, see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html, with special attention to the part about linking the numbering level to the style. Another approach would be to make chapter number and chapter title separate styles. That way you don't have to define the numer formatting separately from the default paragraph font. That is: 1. Define a Chapter Number style that is white, bold, uppercase, engraved, and size 36 and has "Chapter #" numbering applied. Do not give this style a TOC outline level. 2. Use Heading 1 for the chapter title as before. To get the chapter number in the TOC, add "Chapter #" numbering to TOC 1. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "MichaelM" wrote in message ... G'day, have been stumped for a while now by this problem. I have a nice heading style in my document that is of this format: Chapter 1 Chapter Title The Chapter Title appears on the next line because the font is large enough that it wraps to the next line since it won't all fit on 1. The "Chapter 1" font is white, bold, uppercase, engraved and size 36 (I have it on top of a black image background). The "Chapter 1" text is created from heading 1 level 1 numbering, whereas the "chapter title" text is what I typed in for that specific heading. The "Chapter Title" font is black, bold, lowercase and shadowed. When I create a table of contents, this heading shows up like this: Chapter 1 Chapter Title.....................7 which is fine, EXCEPT the "Chapter 1" appears in size 12, white, engraved font. The "Chapter Title" part appears in normal black 12 size font, which is good. I have spent many hours trying to get the TOC to insert the numbering part of this heading ("Chapter 1") as normal text. When you change the TOC 1 style, it changes how the "Chapter Title" font is displayed, but only changes aspects of the "Chapter 1" part. For instance, if I set the TOC 1 style to be embossed, this will change the ENTIRE "Chapter 1 Chapter Title" text in the TOC to embossed. But if I don't set any of the formatting in that column of the font dialog box for the TOC 1 style (so don't emboss, engrave, outline or shadow it), the "Chapter 1" text stays as white, size 12 engraved (so like a size 12 version of the numbering in the actual heading), and the "Chapter title" text appears as it should according to the TOC 1 style - size 12 black normal text. How can I get the "Chapter 1" part of the text in the TOC to be normal, size 12 text like it should be according to the TOC 1 style. When I position the mouse inside the "Chapter 1" text in the TOC, it says it is TOC 1 style, but when I right click and look at the font, it is engraved. By 'numbering' I mean the "Chapter 1" part of the text - which was created using the numbering dialog box, with text "Chapter" followed by the number field. The font of the numbering part of the heading was set by going into the numbering dialog box and setting the font for it to size 36, white, engraved, uppercase etc. |
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