Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen

G'day srd ,

If you make the final para mark of the heading invisible, then the
following para will appear to run in it. Thus you could manually
'trim' the content for the toc pages.

Eg

Heading 1 This is my heading text hidden para mark
NotHeading 1 , it is long and boring and this bit is not in TOC.

Displays

This is my heading text


in the TOC and

This is my heading text, it is long and boring and this bit is not in
TOC.

as the heading in the document.

You could also use TOC fields to manually specify the content of your
TOC.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice


srd reckoned:

Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen

You can add a right indent to the relevant TOC styles, which will make
the table of contents look better:

Heading text heading text heading text heading text
heading text heading text heading text.......................#

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"srd" wrote in message
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Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a
table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically
break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is
to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen

As Stefan says, the usual way to handle this is to add a right indent to the
TOC style to wrap the text short of the page numbers (which will still be at
the right tab, which will still be at the right page margin but outside the
paragraph margin). Another approach is to add the \x switch to the TOC
field; this causes the TOC entry to preserve line breaks in the original
heading.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"srd" wrote in message
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Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen

Thanks. Sounds like the right indent is the way to go. I appreciate the
suggestion to shorten the heading as well.

Stephen Diamond

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:22:36 -0700, Suzanne S. Barnhill
wrote:

As Stefan says, the usual way to handle this is to add a right indent to
the
TOC style to wrap the text short of the page numbers (which will still
be at
the right tab, which will still be at the right page margin but outside
the
paragraph margin). Another approach is to add the \x switch to the TOC
field; this causes the TOC entry to preserve line breaks in the original
heading.




--
srd

If you want to shorten the heading that appears in the TOC, you could also
use a TC field.

--
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.

"srd" wrote in message
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Thanks. Sounds like the right indent is the way to go. I appreciate the
suggestion to shorten the heading as well.

Stephen Diamond

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:22:36 -0700, Suzanne S. Barnhill
wrote:

As Stefan says, the usual way to handle this is to add a right indent to
the
TOC style to wrap the text short of the page numbers (which will still
be at
the right tab, which will still be at the right page margin but outside
the
paragraph margin). Another approach is to add the \x switch to the TOC
field; this causes the TOC entry to preserve line breaks in the original
heading.




--
srd

One other "gotya", make sure you aren't using the \w switch in your toc
field code; we were for a specific reason, but extra tabs got in our text to
be the entry, and really through off the columnar formatting.


"srd" wrote in message
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Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen