Good morning!

I am starting to format a thesis and therefore need as professional a document as possible. One thing I am looking to is format an entry such that as a new entry is added into the table of contents, the Chapter and number is automatically bolded. (i.e. Chapter 1. Magnetic Fields)

This should happen for every entry with the automatic TOC. The tricky part is only the first part of every line is bold. Any ideas? (In Word 2010)

Best,


Bryan

Hi Bryan,

If the Heading in the body of the document appears as 'Chapter 1. Magnetic Fields', the character formatting for the Heading should carry over into the Table of Contents.

Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Paul! Here's the issue:

I am using the "Automatic Table of Contents" (two styles given that aren't manual), so the table decides what text format to give me based on the "rank" of the title (i.e. Heading1, Heading2, Heading3) and assigns bold without prejudice to all words formated to Heading1.
Even when I go to "Options" or "Modify", it only seems to give options for different style headings as a whole - what I'm afraid of is every time the table gets updated, it will destroy/trump all of the manual formatting (such as bolding only a few words in each Heading1 style).

Any thoughts?

BRYAN

PS - Maybe there's another automatic style online? Word always shows me "No online content available" for extra TOCs, so I haven't looked.
PPS - I'm assuming Manual style means it will not automatically pick up my headings and arrange them? That feature is still important to me.

Hi Bryan,

The TOC Styles used by Word for its Table of Contents (TOC) field have no effect on the Headings to which they refer. No changes you make to the TOC formatting will have any effect on the headings. Do note, though, that simply selecting a string in the TOC and changing its formatting will only last until the next time the TOC field updates. For any formatting changes to the TOC to be retained, you'll need to modify the corresponding TOC Style.

Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]