#SETTING INDENTS IN WORD 2011 UPDATE#
#SETTING INDENTS IN WORD 2011 WINDOWS 10#

If you cancel out of the custom TOC dialog box without changing anything, your original last setting that you OKвЂ™d should hold - at least it did for my testing.If you want to indent single, existing paragraphs, the quickest method is the Tab key. Something very strange is going on here, and I suspect itвЂ™s a bug, not a feature.

* Show Levels set to 5 (without me changing anything, except to set it 5 at an early stage). * Show Levels set to 3 (without me changing anything) * Show Levels set to 2 (without me changing anything)

#SETTING INDENTS IN WORD 2011 UPDATE#

I changed it back to 3, saved and reopened, and reset to 5, updated the TOC and checked the Show Levels again - this time it said 2! I cancelled out of the dialog as I didnвЂ™t want to update it like that, then tested it again. This time Show Levels was back and it said 5 levels. At first, the Show Levels option had disappeared from the dialog box altogether! I saved and closed the doc and reopened it.

I then clicked inside the TOC and went back to check the custom TOC settings. I reset вЂShow levelsвЂ™ to 5, and updated the TOC. I opened a doc that I knew used 5 heading levels, though the client only wanted 3 displayed in the TOC.

#SETTING INDENTS IN WORD 2011 WINDOWS 10#

For your info, IвЂ™m using Office 365, installed locally on a Windows 10 PC. Check that itвЂ™s all as you want - if not, repeat these steps changing the paragraph and tab settings until you get it looking how you want.ДЇirst, itвЂ™s not you or your document! I think youвЂ™ve found a glitch in Word, as I was able to replicate what you saw, and more.Say Yes if you are asked to re-insert the TOC.Click OK several times to close these windows.If you need to change the tab settings, click the Tabs button and make the changes there (see ).Left and right indents (I usually make all my right indents about 0.8 cm to stop long text butting up against the page number).On the Paragraph window, consider changing any or all of these settings:.On the Modify Style window, clear the Automatically Update check box (optional), then click the Format button and select Paragraph.Select the TOC level style you want to modify, then click the Modify button on the Style window.YouвЂ™ll need to experiment a bit with the paragraph and indentation settings to get them right for you. These instructions assume you are comfortable with modifying a style. If you want your new TOC levels to be indented below the existing ones, then you may need to change some of the default settings for the TOC 4 and TOC 5 styles. If you also have an automated List of Tables and/or List of Figures, the pagination for these will likely be incorrect as a result of increasing or decreasing the TOC levels, so update those two tables as well. Change it to 1 or 2, if you want a much shorter TOC. On the Table of Contents window, change the Show levels setting from 3 to 4 or 5, depending on how deep you want to go.Go to the References tab > Table of Contents > Insert Table of Contents.

Change the heading levels reported in the TOC ItвЂ™s easy enough to change the TOC levels, but thereвЂ™s a good chance they wonвЂ™t indent correctly below the other TOC levels if youвЂ™ve set up TOC 1, TOC 2 and TOC 3 styles to indent differently than the default. Or perhaps three levels is too many, and you need to just show the Heading 1s. However, for very long complex reports, sometimes you need to report more levels - in the case of my client, the regulatory body they were reporting to needed to see five TOC levels. For most people, thatвЂ™s usually more than enough. By default, Word inserts a Table of Contents (TOC) with three levels of headings.

Setting indents in word 2011