[Christian Schratter]

As the topic says:

I have a TOC with hyperlinks to the headings in my document. If I look at a
single TOC entry, then I'll see that such an entry utilizes the standard
style "Hyperlink" as text-style, and the standard style "TOC x" as
paragraph-style.

I'd like to apply a border (box) to the TOC entries on text level (not on
paragraph level)! Therefore I applied a red border box to the "Hyperlink"
style, which indeed shows the red box in the preview, but non of the TOC
entries show the box (also not after F9).

If I click a TOC entry and use the style-inspector, I can even see the red
box around "Hyperlink", which shows up to be the style used for text; but the
box isn't showing up in the document?!

What's wrong here?

Kind regards, Chris

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Hyperlink character style formatting (blue, underlined) is suppressed in
TOCs (unless you unlink the TOC field), so nothing you add that way will be
displayed, and I don't think you can add another character style (it would
be removed when you update the field). Why not just add the box to the
paragraph formatting? If you include a Horizontal Inside border, you should
get a similar effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Christian Schratter" wrote
in message ...
As the topic says:

I have a TOC with hyperlinks to the headings in my document. If I look at
a
single TOC entry, then I'll see that such an entry utilizes the standard
style "Hyperlink" as text-style, and the standard style "TOC x" as
paragraph-style.

I'd like to apply a border (box) to the TOC entries on text level (not on
paragraph level)! Therefore I applied a red border box to the "Hyperlink"
style, which indeed shows the red box in the preview, but non of the TOC
entries show the box (also not after F9).

If I click a TOC entry and use the style-inspector, I can even see the red
box around "Hyperlink", which shows up to be the style used for text; but
the
box isn't showing up in the document?!

What's wrong here?

Kind regards, Chris

[Christian Schratter]

Good evening Mrs. Barnhill.

Thank you for your quick reply - I just had some time to give it a try.
Sadly the result isn't exactly what I was looking for.

The problem is, that if I apply a border paragraph-wise to a style, then the
border is affected by both:
-) paragraph spacings before and after the paragraph
-) line spacings of the style

As you can imagine, I of course added some space between my entries in the
TOC to make them more readable (= added spacings to the "TOC x" styles). As a
result you will end up with very large boxes around the entries.

To give you an idea what I'd like to achive, I'll post a link to a document
which has said formating:
http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aigner/...s-template.zip

In the zip file the document "thesis.pdf" has 2x links on page 3
("Contents") with said red boxes around. I'd like to reproduce this formating
in MS Word.

If you (or someone else) would like to add a comment I'd be very grateful
since this is the last open issue (otherwise the template looks already very
neat ;-)).

Kind regards, Chris


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The Hyperlink character style formatting (blue, underlined) is suppressed in
TOCs (unless you unlink the TOC field), so nothing you add that way will be
displayed, and I don't think you can add another character style (it would
be removed when you update the field). Why not just add the box to the
paragraph formatting? If you include a Horizontal Inside border, you should
get a similar effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Space Before/After in bordered text is placed outside the borders; the
"Distance from text" setting defines the distance of the border from the
text .

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Christian Schratter" wrote
in message ...
Good evening Mrs. Barnhill.

Thank you for your quick reply - I just had some time to give it a try.
Sadly the result isn't exactly what I was looking for.

The problem is, that if I apply a border paragraph-wise to a style, then
the
border is affected by both:
-) paragraph spacings before and after the paragraph
-) line spacings of the style

As you can imagine, I of course added some space between my entries in the
TOC to make them more readable (= added spacings to the "TOC x" styles).
As a
result you will end up with very large boxes around the entries.

To give you an idea what I'd like to achive, I'll post a link to a
document
which has said formating:
http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aigner/...s-template.zip

In the zip file the document "thesis.pdf" has 2x links on page 3
("Contents") with said red boxes around. I'd like to reproduce this
formating
in MS Word.

If you (or someone else) would like to add a comment I'd be very grateful
since this is the last open issue (otherwise the template looks already
very
neat ;-)).

Kind regards, Chris


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The Hyperlink character style formatting (blue, underlined) is suppressed
in
TOCs (unless you unlink the TOC field), so nothing you add that way will
be
displayed, and I don't think you can add another character style (it
would
be removed when you update the field). Why not just add the box to the
paragraph formatting? If you include a Horizontal Inside border, you
should
get a similar effect.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

[Christian Schratter]

I can't agree on that.

If you try to apply to 2 consecutive paragraphs a border on paragraph level,
then you'll see that the single horizontal line seperating both paragraphs is
affected by the mentioned spacings, regardless of the settings made for the
distance of the border from the text.

This is to some extend logic, because actually you'd need 2x horizontal
lines if you have spacing between 2 paragraphs and want the horizontal
line(s) to stick close to the text. In practice you just have one line if you
apply the border to a paragraph, that's why you will always have some spacing
somewhere.

That's why I'd like to apply the border on text-level, but it's unclear to
me why this option isn't available for the style?

Chris

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Space Before/After in bordered text is placed outside the borders; the
"Distance from text" setting defines the distance of the border from the
text .

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org