Hello,
As exams are a week or two away, I’d like to begin the process of adding layers of organization to my lecture notes. Besides everything else, I’d really like to add a good table of contents. This, in theory, should be easy. I’ve been using bullets throughout with Word automatically formatting the bullet style as I indent.
Theory being the operative word. I used “Heading 1” for the date/ general topic that begins each lecture, but the Style of everything else is “Normal.” When using the Insert TOC option, I can select a style based on Heading 1 to get a list of dates, but nothing seems to capture the first two levels of bulleted-indentation. Since it is all written based on the Normal style, selecting Bullet 1 from the Insert TOC options doesn’t help, nor does basing the TOC on the Normal style. .
But Word automatically formats the bullet graphic based on its indentation so it must know/ keep track of that information. My question is - how to tap into that to build a TOC (or even an alphabet-friendly index)?
Any help? Thanks!!!
Rhythmdvl
In order for Word to capture the text in the bullets, you’ll have to change the style to a Heading style. You can then reapply the bullets to the text after you change the style from Normal to Heading 1 (or 2 or 3 or whatever number you want).
All the above is correct; the key is using Headings.
Here’s something handy that may help: To change a paragraph to heading one, two or three quickly, put the cursor anywhere inside the paragraph and hit <ctrl><alt>1, <ctrl><alt>2, or <ctrl><alt>3.
Or if your bullets are in a style (such as the default “List Bullet”), you can change all of them to heading 2 (or 3 or whatever), by using find and replace/more/format/style.
Don’t do that. The default bullet style is based on “Normal.” IIRC, “Headings 1,” etc. are also based on “Normal,” but those involve actual changes in typeface attributes (size, etc.) and not just paragraph layouts.
You should define your own style or use the Heading styles to get material included in the ToC.