You must include the italic formatting as part of the heading style. If it
is applied as direct formatting, it will show up in the TOC.

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"Kate" wrote in message
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I have a Word doc in which some subheads must be italic, but I don't want
them to be italic in the TOC. How do I make them different? Thanks!