I'm trying to create a template for a right-to-left language, with a toc that will be right-to-left as well (i.e. page numbers on the left side, chapter headings on the right). I started by changing the normal style to right to left. The TOC 1 style is based on normal, yet it's still left to right, and further, when I try to modify it's paragraph tab, it's set to left to right and it's faded and won't let me change it.




Any thoughts?


Thanks!

Change Normal back and change the TOC style.

A little confused about this.
1) I wanted normal to also be right to left, this whole document is using a right to left language. Should I not make the basic style (i.e. normal) right to left, instead of manually editing it all the time?


2) When I do what you said, the right to left radio button in the paragraph tab of TOC 1 is faded and I can't change it.

The "rules" for style inheritance in Word mean that only those settings that haven't been explicitly modified in a "child" style will be inherited from the "parent" (based-on) style. Therefore, you may have to customize the TOC styles separately in this case.

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