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Table of Contents Not Formatted Correctly
I use tables of contents a lot for long documents. Are you using the built-in
STYLES for headings, for example is Fruit heading 1? I always click on Options before generating the table to see what's been selected automatically and what level it has been assigned. After the Table of Contents has been generated, I look at the STYLE that word has assigned to each level, for example TOC 1, TOC 2, and I make indentation adjustments if needed. Usually I need to move the page number more to the left. After adjusting, I modify the style so the changes will be permanent for the document if I generate a new Table of Contents. So far, that is working fine, even in the new very buggy (IMHO) Microsoft Office 2008. "Suzanne" wrote: Please help before I lose my mind. I have created a Table of Contents that looks just fine except that a few of the entries do not line up correctly. For example, I have Fruit. Under that are 1. Apples, then A. Delicious B. Macintosh and C. Granny Smith. The table lof contents looks like this: FRUIT 1. Apples A. Delicious B. Macintosh C. Granny Smith Everything is aligned properly in the body of the document. What would cause those extra spaces? I can take out the spaces, but when I update the table, it goes right back to the bad format. Can anyone help? |
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Table of Contents Not Formatted Correctly
Suzanne,
See if adjusting the first tab stop position (for the text following the paragraph number) of the appropriate TOC style helps. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Martha" wrote in message ... I use tables of contents a lot for long documents. Are you using the built-in STYLES for headings, for example is Fruit heading 1? I always click on Options before generating the table to see what's been selected automatically and what level it has been assigned. After the Table of Contents has been generated, I look at the STYLE that word has assigned to each level, for example TOC 1, TOC 2, and I make indentation adjustments if needed. Usually I need to move the page number more to the left. After adjusting, I modify the style so the changes will be permanent for the document if I generate a new Table of Contents. So far, that is working fine, even in the new very buggy (IMHO) Microsoft Office 2008. "Suzanne" wrote: Please help before I lose my mind. I have created a Table of Contents that looks just fine except that a few of the entries do not line up correctly. For example, I have Fruit. Under that are 1. Apples, then A. Delicious B. Macintosh and C. Granny Smith. The table lof contents looks like this: FRUIT 1. Apples A. Delicious B. Macintosh C. Granny Smith Everything is aligned properly in the body of the document. What would cause those extra spaces? I can take out the spaces, but when I update the table, it goes right back to the bad format. Can anyone help? |
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