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That’s right and explains why the Insert | Link dialog shows the Outline Levels ‘below’ the Heading preceding the table. For the Navigation Pane I don’t see why it could not be treated like a ToC, but in Outline View the effect is quite clear: Headings in tables cannot be positioned hierarchically in a sensible way. But these have to be and obviously are interpreted in their relation to the respective preceding paragraph.Īs a table resides in the text body it will always be secondary to “its” preceding heading and the outline level of a heading in this table can thus not become effective. H4: The H4 headings are detailed subheadings that break the content down into more specific sections. H3: These are the subsections of the main H2 points. from Switzerland has a possible explanation for Word’s behavior.įrom my understanding the ToC-field ‘scans’ the document – according to its settings/switches – for any paragraph with a matching style and/or outline level (plus possibly for TC-fields), regardless of their ‘hierarchical relation’.Īs you pointed out, for Navigation Pane and Outline View only outline levels are used. Here is how these break down: H2: The first level of subheading, the H2s are your main outline points or the header for each main section of your piece. Thanks to for this tip – we love a good Office bug and this is a beauty! Possible Explanation …. The best advice: don’t put Headings or Outline Levels inside tables. Click the heading style you want in the Styles Gallery (such as Heading 1) in the Style group. documents such as reports, where each section is split down into chapters, you can use the table of contents to keep track of tagged chapter headings. Major (or level 1) headers are for chapter titles and appendices, as well as for sections in the front matter a-heads (level 2 headings) are for major. Microsoft usually isn’t motivated to spend a lot of time and money to repair an obscure problem that’s been there for many years. Sections are the Word feature that controls page number formatting, headers and footers, orientation (portrait/landscape), margins and columns. To create headings by applying heading styles: Click in the paragraph (title or subheading) you want to designate or format as a heading. The problem will be deep in the complexity of Word code, finding and fixing the bug might have unintended consequences. The bug should be fixed but that’s unlikely. Sometimes the ‘by design’ excuse is used when they really mean “ It’s always been that way “.
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A zealous Microsoftie might try to say it’s ‘by design’ but there’s no logical reason for this.