Built in Heading Style are actually linked styles. Why?

Stefan Blom · #1 10-09-2019, 04:29 PM

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.

Charles Kenyon · #2 10-09-2019, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stefan Blom

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.

Nowadays a linked style applied to text will not show up in a TOC.

Stefan Blom · #3 10-10-2019, 02:06 AM

Actually, linked styles still work as they used to, as long as you clear the option to "Disable linked styles" in the Styles pane.

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