Table of Contents and Capitalization Solved

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Hello,

When I generate a table of contents (using the "from template" option) in Word 2007, even though the titles of my sections in the body of the text are in uppercase (they follow a style that requires uppercase), the entries in the table of contents are not always in uppercase (most often certain letters are uppercase while others are not, for example: EnneMis in the table of contents for ENNEMIS in the body of the text).
What should I do to avoid having to change them manually?

Thank you in advance for your responses!

m@rina · Accepted Answer

Good evening,  "it's not in TM style but in "hyperlink" style"  that doesn't exist. The styles in the Table of Contents are necessarily TM1, TM2, etc. If you see "Hyperlink", it's because by default, each item in the table of contents has a hyperlink. We can remove them: - Alt+A to display the field code - Remove the switch \h - F9 to update, then Alt+A to see the table.  Regarding your mixed lowercase/uppercase issues:  Your Title 1 style is formatted in uppercase. That's very misleading. Because whether you type your text in lowercase or uppercase, you will only see the uppercase...  However, if you apply a different style to this title (that is not in uppercase), you will see your typing errors: what was typed in lowercase will revert to lowercase. That's why you have this mix in the TOC.  Otherwise, yes I confirm that it is really better to use heading styles... I don't understand why we have to reinvent the wheel when these styles already exist...  m@rina  -- - "On the office forum, questions about office work are asked..." - "Oh really???"

argixu · Answer

Hello

The "Title" styles of the text body are replaced in the table of contents with TM styles.
Thus, the level of the Title 1 style of the text becomes style TM1 in the TOC. And so on for the Title 2 and Title 3 styles.

So, here, you just need to go to the styles pane, hover over the TM style of the level you want to capitalize. Right-click / Modify / Format / Font and set it to uppercase.

You don't provide your version, and I can't give you the exact menu path. But if you've made it this far, you should be able to find it :-))

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ThésardePressée · Answer

Thank you very much, I do find how to modify the TM styles, but it turns out that when I create the table of contents, it is not in TM style but in "hyperlink" style. This may be related to the fact that my headings in the body of the text are not in Heading 1, Heading 2, etc., but defined according to styles I created myself (which should actually be paragraph styles)...

Raymond PENTIER · Answer

That's indeed the case!
It is clearly stated everywhere that you MUST use the Title 1, Title 2 styles, etc., to create automatic tables of contents...
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argixu · Answer

Hello,

It's true that it's better to use the default heading styles in Word, ready to be used for a hierarchy, as the levels are already defined and they are linked paragraph and character styles...

Now, you're going to check this: go to the level of the TDM that you want to change to uppercase. If you place the cursor anywhere on the text, the hyperlink style comes up. Place the cursor just at the beginning of the line, in front of the first letter of the text. The TM style should come up for modification.

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Argitxu

Table of Contents and Capitalization

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