Anyone who's tried to read one of my four books, has probably been put off by my tables of contents. Last night I experienced a Eureka moment.
CHANGE THE MAN
Choose to manually insert a TOC. Word presents a form with a TOC header and two sets of blank TOC1, TOC2, and TOC3. Select the target of your changes and edit (make changes to TOC header, or first set of blanks). save all changes as you go by changing the TOCx style to reflect your changes.
FONTS
Apparently, only the ugly Courier TOC header font can be changed--I chose Times New Roman 12, not to be a rebel nor a conforms, but for its practicality--it's a good font. 12 is a bit larger than the standard 10, but some of us geriatrics need 12 if we don't want t wear glasses for the TOC. I use this font for almost everything, except the title page, the copyright, H1 and H2. Word selects the fonts for level 1, 2, and 3 entries. Try not to use one of these for the TOC header. Word seems to replicate the font size you choose for your TOC header in its TOC 1, 2, and 3 entry typefaces. You should not need to use TOC3 in a work of fiction. DO NOT FILL IN THE TOC FORM!
PARAGRAPHS
Select the text area of TOC1, 2, or 3. change from first line indent to hanging. Choose justified text alignment. Choose widow and orphan control. Select no spaces between lines and maybe 6 points after paragraph.
Now select insert one of the automatic TOCs. You may get a message like "a TOC already exists (or does not exist). Continue?"
The main confusion about TOC styles is that there really is only one set of TOC styles per document:
TOC TOC title "(Table of) Contents" could be "Ducks in the Water;"
TOC1 H1 Header Level 1 Chapter;
TOC2 H2 Header Level 2 Sub-Chapter;
TOC3 H3 Header Level 3 Sub-Sub-Chapter.
I hope this helps. Comments and corrections are welcome.
CHANGE THE MAN
Choose to manually insert a TOC. Word presents a form with a TOC header and two sets of blank TOC1, TOC2, and TOC3. Select the target of your changes and edit (make changes to TOC header, or first set of blanks). save all changes as you go by changing the TOCx style to reflect your changes.
FONTS
Apparently, only the ugly Courier TOC header font can be changed--I chose Times New Roman 12, not to be a rebel nor a conforms, but for its practicality--it's a good font. 12 is a bit larger than the standard 10, but some of us geriatrics need 12 if we don't want t wear glasses for the TOC. I use this font for almost everything, except the title page, the copyright, H1 and H2. Word selects the fonts for level 1, 2, and 3 entries. Try not to use one of these for the TOC header. Word seems to replicate the font size you choose for your TOC header in its TOC 1, 2, and 3 entry typefaces. You should not need to use TOC3 in a work of fiction. DO NOT FILL IN THE TOC FORM!
PARAGRAPHS
Select the text area of TOC1, 2, or 3. change from first line indent to hanging. Choose justified text alignment. Choose widow and orphan control. Select no spaces between lines and maybe 6 points after paragraph.
Now select insert one of the automatic TOCs. You may get a message like "a TOC already exists (or does not exist). Continue?"
The main confusion about TOC styles is that there really is only one set of TOC styles per document:
TOC TOC title "(Table of) Contents" could be "Ducks in the Water;"
TOC1 H1 Header Level 1 Chapter;
TOC2 H2 Header Level 2 Sub-Chapter;
TOC3 H3 Header Level 3 Sub-Sub-Chapter.
I hope this helps. Comments and corrections are welcome.
