Formatting a dissertation. There are only a handful of places in the document where it goes into a 3rd subheading, but the requisite style for that subheading is to have it in line with the paragraph. For example:

This is my subheading. This is the body of my paragraph, in the normal style. The subheading's only difference from normal is italics.

I have the TOC set to pull each heading and subheading automatically, however I can't figure out how to set only the subheading segment of the paragraph so that the entire paragraph doesn't go into the TOC.

I tried style separators before and after the subheading, but it still won't let me have the subheading in a different style than the text body.



Help! I'm far from an expert, just trying to do the ETD for my husband.

I was able to do this by applying the Title style to the subheading and then including Title into the TOC and it only pulled in the actual subheading and not the full paragraph text.
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Thank you. So, I guess my follow-up, then, is how do I figure out what makes the Title style applicable to part of a paragraph? In my document, if I change the style of a few highlighted words at the start (the subheading), it automatically changes the entire paragraph to that style. I'm having to manually adjust formatting and I haven't yet populated a TOC, but I suspect it will pull all. I am using customized styles. Perhaps if I base them off the base Title style?

I would assume because Title is a Linked Style (for paragraph & character) that it works this way. I also just tried it with the Subtitle style and it worked also and Subtitle is also a linked style type. I would guess that the style you have created as a custom style for this is probably a normal paragraph style meaning it would automatically apply to the entire paragraph. Try changing the custom style you created for the subheading to the Style Type: Linked (paragraph and character) and see if that works.

See the Style Separator. You can apply it with Ctrl+Alt+Enter after the part you want in the TOC. Apply the first style by clicking in the part you want in the TOC and applying the (heading) style. Apply the Normal style or a custom paragraph style to the remainder. That custom paragraph style can look the same as the heading style but without the outline level.

Thanks, I'll definitely try that tonight.

Yeah, so style separator worked in one of the paragraphs, but not the rest. Gonna keep fiddling.