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Re: Heading 1 settings don't persist
Hi Charles,
Thank you for your reply. I should clarify I'm not exactly a beginner at Word, have been using it since it came out, but as I'm sure you know, I'm encountering situations now in writing a book that I never encountered before in my previous use cases, which usually involved writing technical documentation for computer science. Anything that was to be published, like user manuals, was then passed on to an editor who'd do necessary formatting.
Anyway, your advice well received, and I do find myself on the formatting end now and am reading all I can. Honestly, I'd been formatting each of my chapter headings myself by hand, which really only took a few steps. Then I read an article on KDP publishing that said to produce an effective table of contents, I needed to have these headings actually marked as "Heading 1". Not one to argue with what the documentation tells me, I started painstakingly going back and doing what I was told.
I HAVE found out, however, that after going to the styles pane of Word and editing the defaults for Heading 1 AND THEN EXITING WORD AND RESTARTING IT ON MY MAC, that Heading 1 is now working exactly like I want it to.
Thank you for your reply. I should clarify I'm not exactly a beginner at Word, have been using it since it came out, but as I'm sure you know, I'm encountering situations now in writing a book that I never encountered before in my previous use cases, which usually involved writing technical documentation for computer science. Anything that was to be published, like user manuals, was then passed on to an editor who'd do necessary formatting.
Anyway, your advice well received, and I do find myself on the formatting end now and am reading all I can. Honestly, I'd been formatting each of my chapter headings myself by hand, which really only took a few steps. Then I read an article on KDP publishing that said to produce an effective table of contents, I needed to have these headings actually marked as "Heading 1". Not one to argue with what the documentation tells me, I started painstakingly going back and doing what I was told.
I HAVE found out, however, that after going to the styles pane of Word and editing the defaults for Heading 1 AND THEN EXITING WORD AND RESTARTING IT ON MY MAC, that Heading 1 is now working exactly like I want it to.
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I would still urge you to read the articles. After using Word for more than ten years, and frequenting newsgroups about Word, I still learned much from both Shauna Kelly's articles and Suzanne Barnhill's pages. I came to Word after having used a dedicated word processor and Word Perfect. Years after I started using Word, I finally learned the importance of styles. That is what I put in my article on that subject.
You do not need to use the built-in heading styles to generate a Table of Contents, but it makes it easier.
