Click the Home tab and then click the Change Styles button this will show you all the options that can be changed. Step 1 − Open the document the style of which needs to be changed. The resulting steps will help you alter the default style. The Change Style function lets you to alter the default font, color, paragraph spacing and style set for a document. You can bring a text to its normal appearance by selecting the Normal style available in the Style Gallery. Step 3 − lastly, to relate a selected style, click over the style and you will find that it is has been applied on the selected portion of text.
You can show more obtainable styles by clicking the More Style button. You will see that the selected portion of text will change its style based on the selected style. Step 2 − Click the Home tab and then move your mouse pointer over the available styles in the Style Gallery. You can try using dissimilar styles on your text based on your requirement. Using style, you can alter the selected portion of text as a heading or subheading or title of the document. Step 1 − Select an area of text to which you want to put on some style.
The resulting steps will help you understand how to apply quick styles to a selected portion of text. Quick styles come with recorded formatting choices, such as font, boldface, and color which we will understand in this chapter. Microsoft Word offers a gallery of Quick Styles that you can relate to headings, titles, text, and lists. Please see previous blogs for information on how to create and format Tables of Contents.In this section, we will talk over how to relate quick styles in Word 2010. More hints and tips on Table of Contents are available on this website and training sessions can be provided in accordance with your requirements on application. See the Guide below for further instruction.
If not your TOC may be picking up a style not required.įix 2: Refer to TOC Custom Headings section to help correct this.Ĭheck the screen to ensure the correct headings are shown. Identify: Is the same style applied to both headings and paragraphs if so the style needs correcting as above. Check previous paragraphs if some are correct use format painter to copy the correct style to another.Įrror 2: TOC is displaying all paragraphs of text This sometimes happens when following on from previous paragraphs if styles have not been set correctly.įix 1: Select the paragraph and apply the appropriate style that is not set to be selected for TOC. Identify: Go to the paragraph/s which are displaying in the TOC. TOC Displaying too MuchĮrror 1: TOC is displaying whole paragraphs of text Identify: This could be related to not having a style applied (see above) or the TOC is not set to pick up the correct styles you have applied.įix 2: Select the Table of Contents and then click on References Tab and select Table of Contents/Custom Table of Contents check custom settings.
level 1 is displayed but not a subheading.
If still not showing check to see if a style is applied to the heading you are trying to include.įix 1: If not apply the appropriate style and Update again.Įrror 2: TOC does not display all Heading levels i.e. Common Errors TOC not displaying all HeadingsĮrror 1: TOC does not contain the heading you just added to your document. Here are some of the common errors and how to fix them. Tables of Contents are highly useful tools within large documents but there are several common errors that can occur when either initially producing the table or on updating the document with further information.