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10-09-2019, 04:29 PM

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Windows 10 Built in Heading Style are actually linked styles. Why?

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At a guess, the built-in headings are linked styles only for the purpose of backward compatibility. Linked styles used the be the only way to include part of a paragraph in a table of contents (besides using TC fields of course). Nowadays, you can use a style separator instead.

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