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To get the effect you want without a lot of manual each time you
create a new heading or update your contents, try the following:
Setup:
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Set up the Heading 1 style to include a right-aligned tab, an Arial font,
and the heading numbering feature, with "Chapter " specified as the
"Text before," and " " (two hard spaces) specified as "Text After."
To Enter a Chapter Heading:
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1. Apply the Heading 1 style (to get "Chapter X" entered in Arial).
2. Press ShiftEnter (to get a soft return, so that your next line is
still part of the same heading paragraph).
3. Select the Palatino font.
4. Press Tab to get to your right-aligned tab stop and enter your title.
After Generating the TOC:
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After you generate the contents, select the field code and use
Edit | Replace to replace the two hard spaces with a space, endash,
and another space.
Hints:
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You can record a simple macro that generates the contents and
then immediately selects it and performs the replacement.
You can also record a simple macro that applies the Heading 1
style, inserts a soft return, inserts a Tab, and switches to Palatino.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Debi Lane
Unisys Corporation
Tech Pubs Support
Internet: dlane -at- p05 -dot- mv -dot- unisys -dot- com
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: HELPPPPP, please....Word problem.
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 1995 1:11PM
I need HELP!
We are writing an 80 page document in Word 6.0c for Windows. The problem is
that I cannot figure out how to do this:
1) I want the Chapter Numbers to appear as "Chapter 1" (without the quotes,
of course) as a left-aligned, Arial font, etc.
2) I want the Chapter Title to appear as "Installing the. . . " as Palatino
Italic, right aligned.
3) I want the Table of Contents to appear as "Chapter 1 - Installing the
..."
The limitation of Word's Table of Contents recognizing built-in styles seems
to be the culprit. Even Microsoft can't figure it out, although their manual
is very similar to what I want to do! The technical support rep said she did
not have access to the same manual that the user receives, so I'm not sure
that she really understood what I was trying to do. She faxed me some info
but it didn't help.
If I use "Heading 1" as either the Chapter Number or Chapter Title, then the
Table of Contents won't pick up both on the same line. If I try to number
the TOC 1 style, it automatically applies the numbers to Heading 1. If I
allow this, but try to make the numbers as hidden text, they become hidden
text in the TOC 1......and round and round we go. So far, I have had to
resort to naming the Chapter Number style "ChapterNum" and using Heading 1
style for the Chapter Title. Then I have to go and manually type the numbers
for the Table of Contents. . . . EVERY TIME I update it!
Thanks.
Jane Bergen
AnswerSoft, Inc.
janeb -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com
or
janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com
