Re: Word is tricking me ... Table of contents headache

["M Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk>]

but I'd love to know why Word has
> decided to autonumber ToC1 and ToC2 when it generates a ToC for me.

By default, Word TOC styles are set to "automatically update". This means
that if you apply format to one line of one level (e.g. TOC2), that change
gets applied to the rest of the level.

So, I'm guessing that somebody's accidentally clicked the numbering button
while the mouse is in the TOC.

> (autonumbering = work of evil),
No it's not. But that's another thread....

"Elizabeth OShea" <elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com> wrote in message
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>
> I've no clever Word trick to share, but I'd love to know why Word has
> decided to autonumber ToC1 and ToC2 when it generates a ToC for me. None
of
> my headings are autonumbered (autonumbering = work of evil), but Word adds
> in autonumbering.
>
> Fixes and amusing stories about ToCs welcome (but you may want to send
them
> to me privately!). I'd also appreciate any pointers to a good ToC
tutorial,
> online or in print. It seems to me that the ToC feature makes up the rules
> as it goes along. I hope this isn't true, and I know there's a publication
> somewhere that will solve my problems.
>
> This is a huge issue for me at the moment, because I'm retrofitting
existing
> documents with ToCs. For some reason previous writers didn't think we
needed
> them. I  suspect it's because they didn't want to deal with the ToC
feature
> in Word.
>
> elizabeth
>
> Elizabeth OShea
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