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I am curious to why Heading styles are linked styles. Whats the purpose?


Why use heading as characters styles? (when applying heading style to part of the paragraph).
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I virtually always disable linked styles. They cause problems, IMO.

You would apply a heading style to selected text if you wanted the same formatting. My advice would be to instead create a character style that matches it. This avoids confusion.
The built-in-heading styles when used as paragraph styles have special qualities which are not present when they are used as character styles.
Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly


If you would like instruction on how to set up some matching character styles, let me know.
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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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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.
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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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Apparently, if the linked style is applied at the beginning of the paragraph it will show up in the TOC. If it is in the body of the paragraph, it will not.



I checked and while disable linked styles mattered for using the Style, once the style is applied you can disable linked styles and the style will still appear in a TOC.

I had only tested with the style in the middle of the paragraph previously. I will have to update my page. Character Style v Paragraph Style v Linked Style

I will keep them disabled!
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I note that the other "magic" characteristics of Heading Styles do not work when they are used for character formatting.
Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly
Use of a Style Separator, instead, would preserve these characteristics.
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Thanks for the additional testing, Charles.

I'll keep the "Disable linked styles" option selected as well. :-)
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