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I have a long document with headings, and a table of contents at the start of the document, with the entries being links to that section. So far, so good. However, I also want the toc text to be single spaced, with no before/after additional spacing.

I've tried using both Heading styles and TOC styles.



If I change the format of the Table of Contents, the next time I refresh the table, the formatting reverts. __FAIL!
If I change the format in Table of Contents > Modify, then the text in the document also changes. __FAIL!

Is there a way to accomplish what I want? Would using an Index instead of a toc do what I want?
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You should set the Spacing Before and Spacing After to zero for all of the paragraph styles in the TOC 1, TOC 2 etc. series of styles.
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Cross-posted at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/table-of-contents-independently-change-format-of/53685e79-a308-4480-bceb-7370a86fc970.
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Yes, that works if all the section headings have a heading style.


I had read something elsewhere that made me think I needed to use the TOC styles on the section headings, but that didn't work very well. The combo does the trick.



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No, the TOC styles are only for use in the TOC.

Here is one more link on Tables of Contents.
How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word by Shauna Kelly

Sometimes it helps to see different takes on the same subject.
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