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Can I get the Table of Contents to stop turning blue when updated?
Every time I update the table of contents field in my documents, the whole
field turns blue. How do I stop this? I have seen other instances where Word seems to assume that I want the color of text to change for some reason (i.e. after forwarding an email, any new text I enter is a navy color). Is there a way to change this, as it wastes time when I have to constantly fix it. Thank you for your help! |
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Hi ?B?VHJpdW1waFdyaXRlcjI=?=,
Every time I update the table of contents field in my documents, the whole field turns blue. How do I stop this? You should always mention the versin of Office involved in a problem. I'm guessing that the TOC is showing the entries as hyperlinks. If you press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes, do you see a \h switch in the TOC field? If you delete that, Alt+F9 again, then update the field does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Ordinarily, however, the hyperlinks, even though they are formatted with the
Hyperlink style (as can be seen by clicking in one of the TOC entries) do not display the blue color and underline unless you unlink the TOC, so this is definitely anomalous behavior. -- 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. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000b187.016bbfb0@speedy... Hi ?B?VHJpdW1waFdyaXRlcjI=?=, Every time I update the table of contents field in my documents, the whole field turns blue. How do I stop this? You should always mention the versin of Office involved in a problem. I'm guessing that the TOC is showing the entries as hyperlinks. If you press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes, do you see a \h switch in the TOC field? If you delete that, Alt+F9 again, then update the field does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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The hyperlink thing was helpful, but we actually do want to keep the TOC
entries as links, so that readers can move easily throught the document. I ended up fixing it by creating a new TOC. I opened Insert - Reference - Index and Tables, and in the TOC tab, chose "Modify." This let me alter each level of the table, so I changed the font of each to black. When I opened Index and Tables, all the text showed blue, so there is clearly some sort of default formatting at work here, but why that should be I do not know. Again, I thank you both for your help! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, however, the hyperlinks, even though they are formatted with the Hyperlink style (as can be seen by clicking in one of the TOC entries) do not display the blue color and underline unless you unlink the TOC, so this is definitely anomalous behavior. -- 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. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000b187.016bbfb0@speedy... Hi ?B?VHJpdW1waFdyaXRlcjI=?=, Every time I update the table of contents field in my documents, the whole field turns blue. How do I stop this? You should always mention the versin of Office involved in a problem. I'm guessing that the TOC is showing the entries as hyperlinks. If you press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes, do you see a \h switch in the TOC field? If you delete that, Alt+F9 again, then update the field does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Try leaving the font color at Auto. The TOC wizardry may have one of those
"backwards" things that displays blue as black and black as blue. g -- 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. "TriumphWriter2" wrote in message ... The hyperlink thing was helpful, but we actually do want to keep the TOC entries as links, so that readers can move easily throught the document. I ended up fixing it by creating a new TOC. I opened Insert - Reference - Index and Tables, and in the TOC tab, chose "Modify." This let me alter each level of the table, so I changed the font of each to black. When I opened Index and Tables, all the text showed blue, so there is clearly some sort of default formatting at work here, but why that should be I do not know. Again, I thank you both for your help! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, however, the hyperlinks, even though they are formatted with the Hyperlink style (as can be seen by clicking in one of the TOC entries) do not display the blue color and underline unless you unlink the TOC, so this is definitely anomalous behavior. -- 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. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000b187.016bbfb0@speedy... Hi ?B?VHJpdW1waFdyaXRlcjI=?=, Every time I update the table of contents field in my documents, the whole field turns blue. How do I stop this? You should always mention the versin of Office involved in a problem. I'm guessing that the TOC is showing the entries as hyperlinks. If you press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes, do you see a \h switch in the TOC field? If you delete that, Alt+F9 again, then update the field does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Suzanne,
Ordinarily, however, the hyperlinks, even though they are formatted with the Hyperlink style (as can be seen by clicking in one of the TOC entries) do not display the blue color and underline unless you unlink the TOC, so this is definitely anomalous behavior. I've seen it. Usually when working with a TOC created in Word 2000 in Word 97. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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