Word TOC loses formatting

[Nancy Allison]

Hi, Jan and everyone.

I've followed your directions, and they do store the formats. However, 
when I regenerate the TOC, what happes is, Word assigns TOC1 to my 
Chapter, Preface, Appendix, and Index headings AND to my Heading 1s.

I can go into Insert/Reference/Indexes and Tables/Options and manually 
reassign the levels, so Chapter, Preface, Appendix, and Index headings 
are level 1, and Heading 1 is level 2. I bump all the Headings down one 
level.

I click OK and see nothing additional to click (like maybe a button that 
says "I Really Mean It. Save These Settings! Puhleeze!")

When I regenerate the TOC, my reassigned levels are overwritten with the 
Word defaults.

Has anyone figured this out?

--Nancy

jans_baked_goods wrote:

>Hi Nancy, 
>
>I've had this problem as well.
>Here's what I've done to solve it:
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>1.  Select the existing TOC.
>2.  Insert, Reference, Index and Tables, change to the
>Table of Contents tab.  Formats should be "From
>Template"
>3.  Click Modify.  You see the Style window.
>4.  Select the first TOC level, click Modify and make
>your changes in the Modify Style window.  Make sure
>you have selected Automatically Update.  Select OK to
>save the style, exit out of the Modify Style window,
>and return to the Style window.
>5.  Repeat step 4 for each TOC level.
>6.  Click OK to exit the Style window and return to
>Index and Tables.
>7.  Click OK on Index and Tables.  When you get the
>pop up "Do you want to replace the selected table of
>contents", select OK.  Your TOC should look exactly as
>you formatted it in Steps 4 and 5.
>8.  Save the document.
>
>These style changes are saved with the document
>template and should remain in place unless you change
>them again.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>jan
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