Guys, I've got my ToC in a document pretty tight. Only problem is, when it updates, it doesn't fill in "some of the subsections. See attached.

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VPSI NAVFAC CY2023 PLDS Price Proposal ##### Rev 0.docx (142.7 KB, 5 views)

Hi, BigSur,

It seems like you maybe confused the concept of the Heading style a bit.

Your main headings (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc.) should ALL have the Style "Heading 1." It's a level number, not a sequential number. It looks like you did Heading 2 for 2.1, Heading 3 for 3.1, etc. By the time you get below heading 3, your standard TOC won't pull it in, and even if it does, it stair-steps each one down a level, and likely shifts to the right one.

Simply apply Heading 1 to all your main headings, and 2 to your lower level headings, and you should be good. You don't seem to have any level 3 headings, like 6.14.

Also if you want, you can adjust the TOC to pull in varying levels. Yours is set to "show levels: 3" meaning it will pull in heading levels 1, 2, and 3. To edit this, hover your mouse over anywhere on your TOC, go to the References tab, Table of Contents dropdown on the far left, and choose Custom Table of Contents. You'll see the Show Levels setting on the first screen. If you click through both the Options and Modify buttons, you'll see you can customize further -- but for your purposes you shouldn't have to after you reset your heading styles.

Also, it looks like you have 6.0 as TERMS AND CONDITIONS in all caps, but in the TOC it's lower case. If you've been applying all caps as an Effect, you'll need to do that also to the TOC level 1 style to get all caps there.

Best of luck,

Ann

See also Headings that do not show up in the Navigation Pane or in a Table of Contents (or in Cross-References / Hyperlinks).

This helped. My main issue when doing this is that it affects all the numbering throughout but FINALLY realized that I can key in the numbering I want and it will basically fix itself, i.e. ALL Heading 2 references starting with 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc.

Also a great help Charles. Thanks as usual. You always come through for me.

I am trying to guess what you mean by "it affects all the numbering." I think what you're saying is you were using a multilevel list and it is auto-numbering 1.1, 1.2, etc., and in the next section it might be 1.6 instead of 2.1? There's a setting in the multilevel list definition that says "Restart list after:" and a dropdown. So, you check the box for this option, and restart level 2 numbering after a new Level 1.

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The problem is that the OP is not using a multilevel list, although advised to in answer to a previous question.
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...erly-auto.html