I've been having a problem changing styles in an existing document. I
highlight the word/section, go to style and pick a new one. Most of the time
when I do this it works fine. But sometimes the style change simply doesn't
take effect.

I find this happens particularly when the style is important because I am
using it as the style as a marker for the Table of Contents (TOC), i.e. the
style makes the text become part of the TOC.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.

Don't select text to apply a paragraph style. Put your insertion point in
the paragraph and then apply the style. Otherwise, you end up with something
that looks like it is correctly formatted, but is in a bogus Char style and
won't show up in a TOC.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"CarolaDubner" wrote in message
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I've been having a problem changing styles in an existing document. I
highlight the word/section, go to style and pick a new one. Most of the
time
when I do this it works fine. But sometimes the style change simply
doesn't
take effect.

I find this happens particularly when the style is important because I am
using it as the style as a marker for the Table of Contents (TOC), i.e.
the
style makes the text become part of the TOC.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.