Click it to drop down the list and choose Custom table of contents. Beside the Table of Contents button on the Ribbon is a tiny disclosure triangle. To Customise the Table of Contents, you must first insert a Custom Table of Contents. Each of your heading styles must have a different outline level, starting with "1" for the Chapter headings. To set the outline level for a style, right-click it in the Styles chunk (or display the Styles task pane, change the list to show "All styles", find your style, and choose Modify Style).įrom the Modify Style dialog, choose Format>Paragraph>Indents and Spacing and set the Outline Level to something other than Body Text.
Outline Level, then the TOC Generator will automatically suggest the appropriate TOC level for each style. It's easiest to get the Outline Levels right (critical to do so if you are using numbering). The TOC Generator recognises styles by their Outline Level or their Name. The most important parts of that list are 5 and 11. Apply your styles to the headings in the document.
Update your page numbering to give it the name of the style you started the Chapter with.Assign a level in the table of contents to each of your created styles.Modify the Table of Contents to include your styles.
To create your own Heading style, you need to: Then apply Heading 1 through Heading 9 as appropriate to your headings. It's that easy, and your TOC, page-numbering, running heading replication The simplest way to customise the built-in headings is to select one of your desired headings, right-click the appropriate level of heading style, and choose "Update to match selection". But customising the BUILT-IN heading styles for your purpose is so much easier and a LOT less work. Of course you can, and I will tell you how in a minute. The shortest and easiest answer to your question is "Don't use custom heading styles" :-)