Fonts in two different tables of content - need help fast!   

I have a table of contents and a table of figures in the same document. I 
want to change the font for TOC1 in the table of figures from bold to 
regular. However, when I do this, it changes the font TOC1 in the table of 
contents as well. I've done this before on other documents the same way 
(after creating a table of contents, assign a new style for table captions 
and make the table of figures based on that new style) and have never had 
this problem. This is a government deliverable, so I'd appreciate any help 
asap. Thanks so much.

date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:10:01 -0700   author:   JefftheTechWriter

Re: Fonts in two different tables of content - need help fast!   

JefftheTechWriter wrote:
> I have a table of contents and a table of figures in the same
> document. I want to change the font for TOC1 in the table of figures
> from bold to regular. However, when I do this, it changes the font
> TOC1 in the table of contents as well. I've done this before on other
> documents the same way (after creating a table of contents, assign a
> new style for table captions and make the table of figures based on
> that new style) and have never had this problem. This is a government
> deliverable, so I'd appreciate any help asap. Thanks so much.

TOC1 is a _style_ applied to level-1 items in all TOCs automatically. If you 
change the style's definition, of course it's going to affect all instances 
in the document where the same style is applied.

You can manually apply direct formatting or a character style to the entries 
one TOC or the other, but that will be removed the next time you update the 
TOC field. The workaround for that is to lock (Ctrl+F11) or unlink 
(Ctrl+Shift+F9) the TOC fields -- the difference is that a locked field can 
be unlocked (Ctrl+Shift+F11) to be updated, but an unlinked field has been 
permanently converted into plain text.

-- 
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:30:33 -0400   author:   Jay Freedman

Re: Fonts in two different tables of content - need help fast!   

To add to what Jay has said, a TOF by default uses the Table of Figures 
style rather than TOC 1. Are you creating your TOF using the Table of 
Figures tab in the Insert | Reference and Tables dialog?

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jay Freedman"  wrote in message 
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> JefftheTechWriter wrote:
>> I have a table of contents and a table of figures in the same
>> document. I want to change the font for TOC1 in the table of figures
>> from bold to regular. However, when I do this, it changes the font
>> TOC1 in the table of contents as well. I've done this before on other
>> documents the same way (after creating a table of contents, assign a
>> new style for table captions and make the table of figures based on
>> that new style) and have never had this problem. This is a government
>> deliverable, so I'd appreciate any help asap. Thanks so much.
>
> TOC1 is a _style_ applied to level-1 items in all TOCs automatically. If 
> you change the style's definition, of course it's going to affect all 
> instances in the document where the same style is applied.
>
> You can manually apply direct formatting or a character style to the 
> entries one TOC or the other, but that will be removed the next time you 
> update the TOC field. The workaround for that is to lock (Ctrl+F11) or 
> unlink (Ctrl+Shift+F9) the TOC fields -- the difference is that a locked 
> field can be unlocked (Ctrl+Shift+F11) to be updated, but an unlinked 
> field has been permanently converted into plain text.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup 
> so all may benefit.
>
>

date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:09:50 -0500   author:   Suzanne S. Barnhill