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Hi all,
I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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I'll just add a couple of pointers for further investigation. When I've been
sent documents that had StyleRef/TOC problems like this, the stray formatting was often applied to a paragraph that had been formatted as Hidden (but you'll see that if you have nonprinting characters displayed) or was in a table cell with Exact row height and was below the visible portion of the cell. Or the formatting was applied to the end-of-cell marker in a table, while the actual text in the cell, terminating with an unnecessary paragraph mark, was formatted with a different style. Searching for the style using Find may or may not be helpful in such cases; you have to be very alert to see that the Find is stopping not where you think it is but where you think there isn't anything! -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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Thanks, Suzanne. Running a find on styles is helping, and in fact there was a
formatted section break hiding behind a table, and it was throwing things off. Actually, it's one of those tables that displays a 4-way arrow in the upper left corner when you move the cursor near the corner of the table. I don't know quite what that means, but I've noticed that they're more trouble than they're worth, and seem to pop up for me when I paste in tables from another document. Correcting it has solved much of the problem, but there's still more to do. My TOC issue is still there for that one heading, but I'll keep after it. Thanks again for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'll just add a couple of pointers for further investigation. When I've been sent documents that had StyleRef/TOC problems like this, the stray formatting was often applied to a paragraph that had been formatted as Hidden (but you'll see that if you have nonprinting characters displayed) or was in a table cell with Exact row height and was below the visible portion of the cell. Or the formatting was applied to the end-of-cell marker in a table, while the actual text in the cell, terminating with an unnecessary paragraph mark, was formatted with a different style. Searching for the style using Find may or may not be helpful in such cases; you have to be very alert to see that the Find is stopping not where you think it is but where you think there isn't anything! -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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Such a table is "wrapped." Double-click on the table handle (top left
corner) to open the Table Properties dialog. On the Table tab, change the text wrapping to None. The problem with the table handle is that, if you use it to move the table (even if you only nudge it inadvertently), the table becomes wrapped; that means there's no easy way to drag and drop a table to a different position in the document without having to "unwrap" it afterward. Worse still, in Word 2007, I'm told, double-clicking on the table handle doesn't open the Table Properties dialog any more, either, making it even more useless. FWIW, if you work in Normal view, you won't see the table handle, which protects you from inadvertently nudging the table. -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne. Running a find on styles is helping, and in fact there was a formatted section break hiding behind a table, and it was throwing things off. Actually, it's one of those tables that displays a 4-way arrow in the upper left corner when you move the cursor near the corner of the table. I don't know quite what that means, but I've noticed that they're more trouble than they're worth, and seem to pop up for me when I paste in tables from another document. Correcting it has solved much of the problem, but there's still more to do. My TOC issue is still there for that one heading, but I'll keep after it. Thanks again for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'll just add a couple of pointers for further investigation. When I've been sent documents that had StyleRef/TOC problems like this, the stray formatting was often applied to a paragraph that had been formatted as Hidden (but you'll see that if you have nonprinting characters displayed) or was in a table cell with Exact row height and was below the visible portion of the cell. Or the formatting was applied to the end-of-cell marker in a table, while the actual text in the cell, terminating with an unnecessary paragraph mark, was formatted with a different style. Searching for the style using Find may or may not be helpful in such cases; you have to be very alert to see that the Find is stopping not where you think it is but where you think there isn't anything! -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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Thanks again, Suzanne. Once again, your advice is invaluable. I finished my
document with a little bit of 'punting', but this will definitely help me going forward. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Such a table is "wrapped." Double-click on the table handle (top left corner) to open the Table Properties dialog. On the Table tab, change the text wrapping to None. The problem with the table handle is that, if you use it to move the table (even if you only nudge it inadvertently), the table becomes wrapped; that means there's no easy way to drag and drop a table to a different position in the document without having to "unwrap" it afterward. Worse still, in Word 2007, I'm told, double-clicking on the table handle doesn't open the Table Properties dialog any more, either, making it even more useless. FWIW, if you work in Normal view, you won't see the table handle, which protects you from inadvertently nudging the table. -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne. Running a find on styles is helping, and in fact there was a formatted section break hiding behind a table, and it was throwing things off. Actually, it's one of those tables that displays a 4-way arrow in the upper left corner when you move the cursor near the corner of the table. I don't know quite what that means, but I've noticed that they're more trouble than they're worth, and seem to pop up for me when I paste in tables from another document. Correcting it has solved much of the problem, but there's still more to do. My TOC issue is still there for that one heading, but I'll keep after it. Thanks again for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'll just add a couple of pointers for further investigation. When I've been sent documents that had StyleRef/TOC problems like this, the stray formatting was often applied to a paragraph that had been formatted as Hidden (but you'll see that if you have nonprinting characters displayed) or was in a table cell with Exact row height and was below the visible portion of the cell. Or the formatting was applied to the end-of-cell marker in a table, while the actual text in the cell, terminating with an unnecessary paragraph mark, was formatted with a different style. Searching for the style using Find may or may not be helpful in such cases; you have to be very alert to see that the Find is stopping not where you think it is but where you think there isn't anything! -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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Glad I could help.
-- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Thanks again, Suzanne. Once again, your advice is invaluable. I finished my document with a little bit of 'punting', but this will definitely help me going forward. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Such a table is "wrapped." Double-click on the table handle (top left corner) to open the Table Properties dialog. On the Table tab, change the text wrapping to None. The problem with the table handle is that, if you use it to move the table (even if you only nudge it inadvertently), the table becomes wrapped; that means there's no easy way to drag and drop a table to a different position in the document without having to "unwrap" it afterward. Worse still, in Word 2007, I'm told, double-clicking on the table handle doesn't open the Table Properties dialog any more, either, making it even more useless. FWIW, if you work in Normal view, you won't see the table handle, which protects you from inadvertently nudging the table. -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne. Running a find on styles is helping, and in fact there was a formatted section break hiding behind a table, and it was throwing things off. Actually, it's one of those tables that displays a 4-way arrow in the upper left corner when you move the cursor near the corner of the table. I don't know quite what that means, but I've noticed that they're more trouble than they're worth, and seem to pop up for me when I paste in tables from another document. Correcting it has solved much of the problem, but there's still more to do. My TOC issue is still there for that one heading, but I'll keep after it. Thanks again for the help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'll just add a couple of pointers for further investigation. When I've been sent documents that had StyleRef/TOC problems like this, the stray formatting was often applied to a paragraph that had been formatted as Hidden (but you'll see that if you have nonprinting characters displayed) or was in a table cell with Exact row height and was below the visible portion of the cell. Or the formatting was applied to the end-of-cell marker in a table, while the actual text in the cell, terminating with an unnecessary paragraph mark, was formatted with a different style. Searching for the style using Find may or may not be helpful in such cases; you have to be very alert to see that the Find is stopping not where you think it is but where you think there isn't anything! -- 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. WG; "LI" wrote in message ... Hi all, I've been down this road before, on a similar problem, which you all have been kind enough to help me with already. I include the corresponding chapter names in my page headers using the InsertField command and "StyleRef" to specify the contents. The problem I have had before is recurring - when I insert the field, nothing is placed in it. I was advised earlier to look above the heading of interest and make sure that no breaks are formatted, because Word is dutifully inserting the contents of the first line in the section with that style. I thought I was certain that there were no lines in front of the title, but I'm still getting no information in spots. Now, when I create the TOC, I get another interesting effect. Say my chapter 2 is entitled "Introduction". When I create the TOC, the title "Introduction" is a line or two above the chapter number, with tab leaders inserted between the title and number. I'm sure that these two things are related somehow. I think it this means that there are stray formatted lines or characters near my chapter headings, but I can't for the life of me see anything. I've deleted section breaks and re-inserted them ad nauseum, reformatted lines in the vicinity of the breaks and chapter headings. I even took a suggestion that I read to delete all of the section breaks and re-insert them one by one, but I'm getting no further along in fixing the issue. Please excuse the winded explanation - I hope my exasperation is plain to see. I'd really appreciate some clear-thinking person to try and straighten me out here. The content of my document has been settled for several days, and it's this blasted formatting that's delaying me - I know, not a new story. Thanks to all for reading this far and for any help you can provide. |
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