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MS Word TOC and Heading Problems
Hi, I red your comment about style and think that you can help me. I am writing my thesis and modified my styles according to needs. For example, I create a style (modified from Heading 1) and named it as "H1". Now I need to change the table reference from "Table 2" to "Table 1-2". "1" refers to "Heading 1". However, because I changed the heading name word doesn't recognize "H1" as a "Heading 1". I tried to change the heading name from "H1" to "Heading 1" but because it is a reserved built in style ı can not.
How can I change the name from H1 to Heading 1 or how can I recall Heading 1 back (I can not see Heading 1 among the styles)
thanks for your time
Since you are using table captions with heading numbering, you really need to make use of the built-in heading styles for your numbering needs. Restarting captions will be a nightmare to maintain if you make use of custom heading styles.
For instructions on setting up multilevel numbering for your headings, see https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/numbering20072010.html (the article applies to ribbon versions, that is, to Word 2007 and later). You can customize the font, size and other paragraph style properties of the headings to suit the needs of your document.
You will have to apply the appropriate heading styles to text paragraphs.