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Darkewolfe
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Alright, I'm playing with a file in word. I am familiar with using the auto-style function to format text such that it will be flagged as an entry in the table of contents. Is there any way to flag or unflag a line of text other than using their style buttons? Basically I have a document someone else formatted and sent to me, with about 100 lines of text that are flagged as something to be marked in the table of contents, even though they shouldn't be. What's the quickest way to fix this?
What is this I don't even.
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In Word, how do you mark something for the table of contents without otherwise changing its font.
If I highlight the content I want to change and do the "Update X to Match Selection" will it still retain the TOC flag?
I'll try to test and confirm.
Click on the current TOC and then try to add a new one. There you can select how many levels the TOC shows and you can play with what Styles are what Level for the TOC in the Options button from there. When you're done, click OK and say Yes to replacing the currently selected TOC with the new one. I think that should allow you to specify which Styles and Levels are being used and then you can know what Style to match to.
I hope I'm being helpful... it's a bit difficult in this abstract way.
You could also locate your random text, select it, and change its style to "Regular".
Be aware that using Heading 1 will make a top level entry, and Heading 2 will make a sub entry, and so on and so forth.
Yeah, going to have to do the latter. Switching everything to the same font at once would be disastrous. Thanks for the info.
Good luck finding your rogue text.
Then I want pages 11-100 to be 1-90.
Then I want pages 101-115 to be 1A-15A.
Can I do this? If so, how?
In the document, go to the TOC, and click (or Ctl-Click) on the text that you don't want it picking up. Should take you to that text.
What usually happens is the line below a header will retain the header properties; even if it's just the first character and may not display as header text, Word will pick it up and put it in the TOC. Often occurs when a soft-return was used (Shift-Enter). So you have to delete any spaces/carriage returns before the unwanted text.
EXAMPLE:
Header 1
The quick brown fox.
Header 1The quick brown fox.
Now hit Enter to create a new line (or two), then select "The quick brown fox." and choose the default Style you want.
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As for creating a TOC, you can control both which text is picked up, and how it is displayed. By modifying the TOC properties, you can choose what Text Style is tied to which TOC Level, and how that text is formatted (bold, size, etc.) So if I wanted the TOC to pick up all 10pt bolded text as a new header, I'd select 'Header 1 text' to be Level 1 in the TOC. I'd then modify the style, "Header 1" to be 10pt bolded text in the document.
Click on the page you want the new numbering system to start, so page 11.
In the page setup section of "page layout", select breaks, and make a new page section break. Effectively you are telling Word this is a different part of the document. It also starts over the numbering system. Create numbered pages any way you wish!
That's it.
You can choose to "Continue Numbering From Previous" or "Start At Number...." to keep a running tally though the whole doc.
Just saying. Use that + git and you'll say fuck word forever.