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Hyphenation in a TOC
I have tried several examples and have not been able to enable
hyphenation in a table of contents. The disable hyphenation setting is unchecked in the paragraph styles but no hyphens. Is there some trick to this? |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
Even if it were possible, I would strongly advise against it. You might,
however, try inserting conditional hyphens in the actual headings. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... I have tried several examples and have not been able to enable hyphenation in a table of contents. The disable hyphenation setting is unchecked in the paragraph styles but no hyphens. Is there some trick to this? |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
On Jan 28, 9:10*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Even if it were possible, I would strongly advise against it. You might, however, try inserting conditional hyphens in the actual headings. I tried to discourage the user. No budge. I hate justified headings. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
The headings are justified? Gack!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... On Jan 28, 9:10 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Even if it were possible, I would strongly advise against it. You might, however, try inserting conditional hyphens in the actual headings. I tried to discourage the user. No budge. I hate justified headings. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
Time to call the men in white coats.
Terry Farrell wrote in message ... On Jan 28, 9:10 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Even if it were possible, I would strongly advise against it. You might, however, try inserting conditional hyphens in the actual headings. I tried to discourage the user. No budge. I hate justified headings. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
I experimented today on the user's problem. It is really string how
Word behaves. If I cut the text from the TOC field and paste it, World absolutely refuses to hyphenate it. If I paste special as text, then apply TOC styles to it,Word justifies the text. It looks like something get set behind the scenes that cannot be unset. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
You have to realize that text in the TOC is part of a field, so its behavior
is governed by whatever laws are applied to fields. But are we talking about justifying text or hyphenating it? Those will be two entirely different things. Keep in mind that the TOC entries, if they include page numbers, are going to include a right-aligned tab stop and a tab character, which would prevent them from being justified. And it may be that the style (or the field) is formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar," which would prevent hyphenation. When you apply the TOC style to text that is not in a table of contents, it does not include the tab stop for page numbers (which is generated dynamically) nor the tab character (ditto), so it would behave differently outside the TOC. Regardless of whether the headings themselves are justified, I can see absolutely no defense of trying to have the TOC entries justified. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org wrote in message ... I experimented today on the user's problem. It is really string how Word behaves. If I cut the text from the TOC field and paste it, World absolutely refuses to hyphenate it. If I paste special as text, then apply TOC styles to it,Word justifies the text. It looks like something get set behind the scenes that cannot be unset. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
On Jan 30, 8:32*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You have to realize that text in the TOC is part of a field, so its behavior is governed by whatever laws are applied to fields. But are we talking about justifying text or hyphenating it? Those will be two entirely different things. Keep in mind that the TOC entries, if they include page numbers, are going to include a right-aligned tab stop and a tab character, which would prevent them from being justified. And it may be that the style (or the field) is formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar," which would prevent hyphenation. When you apply the TOC style to text that is not in a table of contents, it does not include the tab stop for page numbers (which is generated dynamically) nor the tab character (ditto), so it would behave differently outside the TOC. Regardless of whether the headings themselves are justified, I can see absolutely no defense of trying to have the TOC entries justified. What is weird is that the paragraphs will not hyphenate even AFTER being cut and pasted out of the field or the link to the field is broken. However, they will hyphenate if you do a paste special as text and apply the TOC. styles. I wish I could convince users to do things the easy way....but I can't. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
The only way to do this is to create your TOC, then with the cursor in the
TOC (so that it selected) use the UnLinkField command (Ctrl+Shft+F9) which unlinks the field and effectively turn the TOC (field) into text (non-field). This will let you do whatever you like with the formatting but has the obvious disadvantages that if the document is edited, the TOC has to be recreated from scratch and justified/hyphenated it will look unconventionally ghastly. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP wrote in message ... On Jan 30, 8:32 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You have to realize that text in the TOC is part of a field, so its behavior is governed by whatever laws are applied to fields. But are we talking about justifying text or hyphenating it? Those will be two entirely different things. Keep in mind that the TOC entries, if they include page numbers, are going to include a right-aligned tab stop and a tab character, which would prevent them from being justified. And it may be that the style (or the field) is formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar," which would prevent hyphenation. When you apply the TOC style to text that is not in a table of contents, it does not include the tab stop for page numbers (which is generated dynamically) nor the tab character (ditto), so it would behave differently outside the TOC. Regardless of whether the headings themselves are justified, I can see absolutely no defense of trying to have the TOC entries justified. What is weird is that the paragraphs will not hyphenate even AFTER being cut and pasted out of the field or the link to the field is broken. However, they will hyphenate if you do a paste special as text and apply the TOC. styles. I wish I could convince users to do things the easy way....but I can't. |
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Hyphenation in a TOC
On Jan 30, 5:05*pm, "Terry Farrell" wrote:
The only way to do this is to create your TOC, then with the cursor in the TOC (so that it selected) use the UnLinkField command (Ctrl+Shft+F9) which unlinks the field and effectively turn the TOC (field) into text (non-field). This will let you do whatever you like with the formatting but has the obvious disadvantages that if the document is edited, the TOC has to be recreated from scratch and justified/hyphenated it will look unconventionally ghastly. Even after you unlink the TOC it STILL will not hyphenate. The only thing I have found that makes it hyphenate is to paste special as text and they apply at TOC style. |
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