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Extra entries in the document map
Word 2002 on Windows XP
I'd like the document map to show only "Heading 1,2,3", like what appears in the table of contents. However, I see lots of other entries, almost any bold sentances, short lines, etc. Does the document map work? Is there a way to turn off everyhting except what appears in the table of contents? |
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"Ken Goldman" wrote:
Word 2002 on Windows XP I'd like the document map to show only "Heading 1,2,3", like what appears in the table of contents. However, I see lots of other entries, almost any bold sentances, short lines, etc. Does the document map work? Is there a way to turn off everyhting except what appears in the table of contents? Hi Ken, Document Map often autoformats your document, and assigns outline levels to paragraphs that look like headings. See Daiya Mitchell's article for details: http://word.mvps.org/FAQS/General/DocumentMap.htm The article has a macro to fix the damage. I rarely see Word2003 mess with the outline levels if there are headings already. Maybe it's been made less aggressive. And maybe, if you haven't done so already, installing the latest updates for Word2002 might help. That's just a guess though. If you want to use Document Map (which is a handy tool) I don't know of any way to make sure the autoformatting does not happen. Regards, Klaus |
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For DocMap to work and display correctly, your document needs to be
formatted correctly using styles throughout without any direct formatting. What you have to be extra careful about is that DocMap is actually an AutoFormat feature (thought this is far from obvious). If a document is nearly all normal style with direct formatting applied here and there, when you activate DocMap, it will go through the document AutoFormat it the way it think you intended. So if you have emboldened a short sentence using direct formatting, DocMap sees it as a heading and therefore applies a Heading Style to it. This may be why you are seeing the errant headings listed in the DocMap. If you right-click on the DocMap, it should pop up a dialog to let you select what levels you want to display, but as said above, your document needs to be accurately formatted. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Ken Goldman" wrote in message ... Word 2002 on Windows XP I'd like the document map to show only "Heading 1,2,3", like what appears in the table of contents. However, I see lots of other entries, almost any bold sentances, short lines, etc. Does the document map work? Is there a way to turn off everyhting except what appears in the table of contents? |
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We just got a new data point. The same document, shared among many
users in many companies, has a good "Document Map" for some users (just the headings) and a bad document map for others (many extra entries). It doesn't seem to be correlated to the version of Word. So we suspect that it's not the document itself but some general configuration of Word that is incorrect for some users. So, is there some configuration, template, master document, etc., that could be messing up the Document Map? Terry Farrell wrote: For DocMap to work and display correctly, your document needs to be formatted correctly using styles throughout without any direct formatting. What you have to be extra careful about is that DocMap is actually an AutoFormat feature (thought this is far from obvious). If a document is nearly all normal style with direct formatting applied here and there, when you activate DocMap, it will go through the document AutoFormat it the way it think you intended. So if you have emboldened a short sentence using direct formatting, DocMap sees it as a heading and therefore applies a Heading Style to it. This may be why you are seeing the errant headings listed in the DocMap. If you right-click on the DocMap, it should pop up a dialog to let you select what levels you want to display, but as said above, your document needs to be accurately formatted. |
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Yes. If you right-click on the DocMap window, there's loads of choices about
which levels are displayed. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Ken Goldman" wrote in message ... We just got a new data point. The same document, shared among many users in many companies, has a good "Document Map" for some users (just the headings) and a bad document map for others (many extra entries). It doesn't seem to be correlated to the version of Word. So we suspect that it's not the document itself but some general configuration of Word that is incorrect for some users. So, is there some configuration, template, master document, etc., that could be messing up the Document Map? Terry Farrell wrote: For DocMap to work and display correctly, your document needs to be formatted correctly using styles throughout without any direct formatting. What you have to be extra careful about is that DocMap is actually an AutoFormat feature (thought this is far from obvious). If a document is nearly all normal style with direct formatting applied here and there, when you activate DocMap, it will go through the document AutoFormat it the way it think you intended. So if you have emboldened a short sentence using direct formatting, DocMap sees it as a heading and therefore applies a Heading Style to it. This may be why you are seeing the errant headings listed in the DocMap. If you right-click on the DocMap, it should pop up a dialog to let you select what levels you want to display, but as said above, your document needs to be accurately formatted. |
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Extra entries in the document map
I see that menu. But it just allows us to specifiy the heading level.
The problem is that Word includes many non-heading entries in the document map. There are many large, bold text, single lines in the text that get placed in the document map. Word interprets them as headings for some users and not for others. So there must be some configuration that says either "be clever and try to figure out useful things to put in the document map" and "don't be so smart, just put the numbered headings that are in the table of contents in the document map." The table of contents is fine. Terry Farrell wrote: Yes. If you right-click on the DocMap window, there's loads of choices about which levels are displayed. |
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The setting in question is "Define styles based on your formatting," which
actually means "Apply styles based on your formatting." See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html and http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm for more info. -- 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. "Ken Goldman" wrote in message ... I see that menu. But it just allows us to specifiy the heading level. The problem is that Word includes many non-heading entries in the document map. There are many large, bold text, single lines in the text that get placed in the document map. Word interprets them as headings for some users and not for others. So there must be some configuration that says either "be clever and try to figure out useful things to put in the document map" and "don't be so smart, just put the numbered headings that are in the table of contents in the document map." The table of contents is fine. Terry Farrell wrote: Yes. If you right-click on the DocMap window, there's loads of choices about which levels are displayed. |
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I explained this in my previous reply. Did you not read it?
Terry "Ken Goldman" wrote in message ... I see that menu. But it just allows us to specifiy the heading level. The problem is that Word includes many non-heading entries in the document map. There are many large, bold text, single lines in the text that get placed in the document map. Word interprets them as headings for some users and not for others. So there must be some configuration that says either "be clever and try to figure out useful things to put in the document map" and "don't be so smart, just put the numbered headings that are in the table of contents in the document map." The table of contents is fine. Terry Farrell wrote: Yes. If you right-click on the DocMap window, there's loads of choices about which levels are displayed. |
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