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How can I get my Table of Contents in Word to ignore line breaks that are in the body of my text?
TomVassos The word Dedication was still in the Heading 2 Style
After changing it to the Normal Style
and then updating the table of contents, this was the result
TomVassos You have not used line breaks; you have separated the text into individual paragraphs.
Where you see the ¶ in the entry in the Body of the document, you need to delete that and at that location use SHIFT+ENTER so that it looks like
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP No friggin way, it worked, you're a life saver.... thanks so much!!!! Tom
TomVassos @Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
Hi Doug, sorry to trouble you... in case you might know the answer, I'm having 2 more problems with my Table of Contents. See this image:
1. You will notice that it has picked up the fancy font for the word "Dedication" that I used on my Dedication page, but in the Table of Contents of course, I only want it to use a regular Cambria font, identical to the other font in the other Heading 2 titles in the TOC. I know I can change this manually, but is there any way to get it to do it automatically every time the TOC is updated?
2. You will notice that for the Part A title (Heading 1), it is indenting the first line but I don't want it to do that... I want the first line in that title to be all the way over to the left like the second line is. It's easy to change that manually, all I have to do is to move the little margin tab at the top of the page, but is there any way to get it to do it automatically every time the TOC is updated?
Thanks for any ideas you might have... 🙂
I agree with Doug that a sample document would be helpful to diagnose this in detail.
Generally, though, regarding #1, many aspects of direct font formatting (font name, font color) will be reflected in a table of contents. See the screen shot below.
