WD: Custom TOC Style Changes Not Retained
ID: Q176619
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
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Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
SYMPTOMS
Customizations that you make to the TOC styles in your document are lost.
CAUSE
When you create a table of contents using any Format other than From
Template, those formats will redefine any changes that you have made to the
TOC style definitions. The styles are reset to their default settings.
Therefore, if you change the format of your table of contents back to the
From Template format, any changes that you made to the TOC styles within
the document will be returned to their default settings. That is, custom
TOC settings will be lost.
WORKAROUND
To save the customization to the TOC style to the template, follow these
steps:
- On the Format menu, click Style.
- Under Style, select a table of contents style (for example, select
TOC1), and then click Modify. Make the desired changes to the style
definition, click Add To Template, and then click OK.
- Click Close.
The following workaround will work only if you apply the following steps
immediately after applying a Table Of Contents Format other than From
Template. To re-apply the TOC style definition from your template to your
Table of Contents, follow these steps:
- On the Tools menu, click Templates And Add-ins.
- Click "Automatically update document styles," and then click OK.
- Save and close the document.
- Exit or Quit Word and the re-start Word.
- Open the document containing the Table of Contents.
The style from the template should update the TOC style.
If the TOC style is not updated, follow these steps:
- On the Format menu, click Style.
- Click Organizer and click the Styles tab.
- On the side of your template (the default is the Normal template),
select TOC1, and then click Copy. Click Yes to confirm the overwriting
of the style.
- Click Close.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about Table of Contents, please see the
following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q142459 WD: How to Build a Table of Contents Using Custom Styles
Q122706 WD: Table of Contents Shows Wrong Formatting
For additional information about this situation in earlier versions of
Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q147333 Custom TOC Style Changes Not Retained.
Additional query words:
toc word8 word97
Keywords : kbtemplate macword98
Version : MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug