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Nilda generates Tables of Contents all the time in Word. She uses the Mark Entry feature to mark what should go in each Table of Contents. There are times when she may have a section title that consists of two lines separated by a hard return. When she marks the title as a single TOC entry, it doesn't appear in the generated TOC, and Nilda wonders why this is the case.
The reason is intrinsic to how Word puts together its TOCs. While a TC field (used to mark TOC entries) can presumably include a paragraph break, Word ignores everything after that break when it composes the TOC from those fields.
The solution is to get rid of the paragraph break. You have two options. First, you could edit your TC field contents so that the paragraph break is not included in the field. Second, you could actually modify your document so that the two lines of your heading are separated by a soft return (Shift+Enter) instead of a hard return (Enter).
If you choose the second route, then when Word compiles the TOC it will include the entire heading as a single entity, automatically replacing the soft return with a space.
A good place to find some great ideas on TOCs in Word is at this page, created by Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill:
http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/TOCTips.htm
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2020-06-16 07:27:16
Paul Stregevsky
Another solution is to replace the space between adjacent words with a nonbreaking space for the last few words of your heading.
2020-06-15 12:03:58
James Hensinger
Chapter titles as running page headings. My book manuscript is assembled from separate files. The chapter titles in each file are Heading Style One. This is the only use of Heading Style One. Each chapter has a trailing New Page Break.
Is it possible to use the chapter titles automatically as a running title appearing in a header on each page AFTER assembling the files and creating the TOC? How would such a header be styled?
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