Style Separators let you have Table of Contents (TOC) entries that use only part of the heading text or text that doesn’t look like a heading. It gives you a lot more flexibility to choose the document formatting you want and not be forced into Microsoft Word’s standard formatting. Style Separators are a useful trick […]
Choose specific words from a heading to appear in the Table of Contents (TOC) of a Word documents, instead of the whole heading. Welcome to the strange world of Word’s Style Separators. We’ve already explained Lead in emphasis which is easy to use. Simply select the text you want at the start of a paragraph […]
There are many different ways to change the look a Table of Contents from a Microsoft Word document. The standard ways, taught in most classes, force you to format your document in a way that suits Word. We’ll show you how to get a Table of Contents (TOC) from a document formatted the way you […]
Four simple Microsoft Word tricks to squeeze a Table of Contents (or Table of Figures etc) into fewer pages. Here’s an example of a Table of Contents (ToC) that’s grown too big using Word’s default settings. It’s creeped over to a second page. We’ve seen ToC’s for big documents that take up many, many pages. […]
Microsoft Word has many Table of Contents options, a lot of them hidden away. Here’s a complete list of all the switches available with a Word {TOC … } field code. We’ve covered the basics of Table of Contents and some Table of Contents tricks already, here we’ll go in-depth with the TOC field codes […]
