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TOC - formatting, styles, fonts
Hi!
I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the document. When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do? Listrom |
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Which style(s) did you modify? The TOC styles? The Normal style?
Either should work, because (by default) the TOC styles inherit font formatting from Normal. Anyway, once the styles have the proper formatting, you could select any text in the template and press Ctrl+SpaceBar, in order to get rid of any direct formatting that might be overriding this. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Listrom" wrote in message ... Hi! I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the document. When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do? Listrom |
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In Normal, standard style font is Arial, but if I choose Normal, I loose the
indents and the other formatting of the TOC. I have marked the TOC, chosen edit, then the button TOC and then again (under the TOC-tab) change. I then get the list of TOC styles, and I have chosen change for Cont1, and changed font to Arial. But, I have also chosen to make hyperlinks of the content in the TOC. Does this have anything to say? Will it then be formatted with hyperlink-style? While I was writing: I became aware of the fact that have to change Cont2, cont3 and so on, corresponding to the levels I have in my TOC. Is that correct? Stefan Blom skrev: Which style(s) did you modify? The TOC styles? The Normal style? Either should work, because (by default) the TOC styles inherit font formatting from Normal. Anyway, once the styles have the proper formatting, you could select any text in the template and press Ctrl+SpaceBar, in order to get rid of any direct formatting that might be overriding this. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Listrom" wrote in message ... Hi! I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the document. When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do? Listrom |
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I am confused. There are no built-in styles named Cont1, Cont2, etc. If this
is an automatic TOC (TOC field), it is using Word's TOC 1, TOC 2, etc., styles, and those are the ones that need to be modified. As Stefan pointed out, however, by default the TOC styles are based on Normal; if you have modified the Normal style, the TOC styles should be reflecting the change. But there are two other factors that may be involved he 1. Sometimes style inheritance doesn't work properly if you modify the base style after using a style based on it, so it's possible that the TOC styles could still be TNR even though you've modified Normal. And, allthough the TOC styles are set to update automatically, I have found that this affects paragraph formatting only. Font formatting must be modified explicitly in the Modify Style dialog. 2. Any direct formatting applied to the headings being used to build the TOC will be reflected in the TOC entries. If you have applied TNR to any of the headings as direct font formatting (not part of the heading style), this will show up in the TOC. Hyperlinking the TOC should not be an issue, as Word suppresses the Hyperlink character style for TOC entries unless you unlink the TOC, at which point the entries (infuriatingly) become blue and underlined even though they are no longer hyperlinked. -- 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. "Listrom" wrote in message ... In Normal, standard style font is Arial, but if I choose Normal, I loose the indents and the other formatting of the TOC. I have marked the TOC, chosen edit, then the button TOC and then again (under the TOC-tab) change. I then get the list of TOC styles, and I have chosen change for Cont1, and changed font to Arial. But, I have also chosen to make hyperlinks of the content in the TOC. Does this have anything to say? Will it then be formatted with hyperlink-style? While I was writing: I became aware of the fact that have to change Cont2, cont3 and so on, corresponding to the levels I have in my TOC. Is that correct? Stefan Blom skrev: Which style(s) did you modify? The TOC styles? The Normal style? Either should work, because (by default) the TOC styles inherit font formatting from Normal. Anyway, once the styles have the proper formatting, you could select any text in the template and press Ctrl+SpaceBar, in order to get rid of any direct formatting that might be overriding this. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Listrom" wrote in message ... Hi! I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the document. When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do? Listrom |
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Thank you! Sorry about confusing you. I do not have an english office
version, so I had to take a guess on the style names. Normal was modified long before this, but the issue was that I didn't know I had to modify several styles, I thought one style was selected for all the text in TOC. I have not done any direct formatting either. It is working now, after modifying the other styles. The information you gave was very useful! Listrom Suzanne S. Barnhill skrev: I am confused. There are no built-in styles named Cont1, Cont2, etc. If this is an automatic TOC (TOC field), it is using Word's TOC 1, TOC 2, etc., styles, and those are the ones that need to be modified. As Stefan pointed out, however, by default the TOC styles are based on Normal; if you have modified the Normal style, the TOC styles should be reflecting the change. But there are two other factors that may be involved he 1. Sometimes style inheritance doesn't work properly if you modify the base style after using a style based on it, so it's possible that the TOC styles could still be TNR even though you've modified Normal. And, allthough the TOC styles are set to update automatically, I have found that this affects paragraph formatting only. Font formatting must be modified explicitly in the Modify Style dialog. 2. Any direct formatting applied to the headings being used to build the TOC will be reflected in the TOC entries. If you have applied TNR to any of the headings as direct font formatting (not part of the heading style), this will show up in the TOC. Hyperlinking the TOC should not be an issue, as Word suppresses the Hyperlink character style for TOC entries unless you unlink the TOC, at which point the entries (infuriatingly) become blue and underlined even though they are no longer hyperlinked. -- 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. "Listrom" wrote in message ... In Normal, standard style font is Arial, but if I choose Normal, I loose the indents and the other formatting of the TOC. I have marked the TOC, chosen edit, then the button TOC and then again (under the TOC-tab) change. I then get the list of TOC styles, and I have chosen change for Cont1, and changed font to Arial. But, I have also chosen to make hyperlinks of the content in the TOC. Does this have anything to say? Will it then be formatted with hyperlink-style? While I was writing: I became aware of the fact that have to change Cont2, cont3 and so on, corresponding to the levels I have in my TOC. Is that correct? Stefan Blom skrev: Which style(s) did you modify? The TOC styles? The Normal style? Either should work, because (by default) the TOC styles inherit font formatting from Normal. Anyway, once the styles have the proper formatting, you could select any text in the template and press Ctrl+SpaceBar, in order to get rid of any direct formatting that might be overriding this. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Listrom" wrote in message ... Hi! I've made a template with a TOC that will update automatically when the user close the document base on the template. As we use Arial as our standard font, I would very much like the TOC to use this font as well, but it doesn't. I have chosen to change from Times new Roman, but it seems to forget the choices I have made and appears inTnR next time I open the document. When I look at the style it says Arial, but I think word is lying....a bit Any suggestions? What have I have done wrong, and what am I supposed to do? Listrom |
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