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Adding background color every second paragraph in an MS Word TOC
Hi, I recently converted a PDF file originally designed in InDesign to an MS Word file. The TOC had a background color set for every second paragraph. Since I found no automatic solution to thi...
How about using Manual Paragraph Shading.
Since TOC entries are just regular paragraphs once generated, you can manually apply background color to every second paragraph:
- Select every second paragraph and use Paragraph → Shading in the “Design” tab.
- To speed it up, create a custom style (e.g., "AltTOCHighlight") based on TOC1 or TOC2, but with added shading. Then apply it manually to selected lines.
Since TOC02 is already a style, I am not sure MS Word can accept two different styles for level 2 headings. Unless I set a different style for all heading 2 levels that will need a shadow.