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Default Style format changes text but not TOC

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:04:02 -0800, Brian
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As I understand it, the purpose of the style is so that when I can set all
subsection headings the same (say bold), and later decide to make them all
italics I don't have to hunt down each heading - I just modify the style for
Heading3 and they are all changed.

However, I have styles set up for Headings 1-4 in a ~100 page document.
They look fine. I made a table of contents and it set up correctly except
the styles. After making the heading style, I later modified it to make the
text all caps. The headers in the document body are now all caps, BUT the
headings in the table of contents are not. If I find each heading and
manually make them caps, the toc updates to all caps. If I have to hunt for
each one, why use styles at all?


This isn't an issue about the heading styles, it's about the way a TOC works.

First: The entries in a TOC are _not_ formatted with the styles of the headings.
Instead, there are separate styles (TOC 1, TOC 2,... TOC 9) that apply to the
levels in the TOC, and they can be modified independently of the heading styles.

Second: The TOC entries _will_ reflect "direct" (non-style) formatting such as
capitalization or italics that you apply to the headings. That's why your
"workaround" worked.

If you want to make the Heading 1 show all caps in the text and in the TOC, then
change the definitions of both the Heading 1 style _and_ the TOC 1 style to
include All Caps. No hunting required, just some understanding of how Word
works.

For more, see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html.

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