I am working in Word 2010.
I have a large document for which I have created a table of contents. In my document I have used styles etc. After the document was completed there are some sections which I want to show with a different font color. It cannot be done via style changes as not all of the same style have the different color. The color is used to indicated an importance for certain areas.
What I would like to do is when I update the TOC have the sections that are a different color of font come to the TOC with their respective color.
Is this possible and if so can anyone give me directions of how to do it?
3 Answers
Only direct font formatting of headers is reflected in the TOC. Just change font color of a header (but not in style) and when creating TOC do not use hyperlinks.
Result below:
First, you can create different styles for each different header color.
And apply them as they belong.
Here we have "Heading 1" and "Heading 1 - Orange".
Then, when you create your Table of Contents, you insert a Custom Table of Contents:
And when you click "Options..." you will have your different Heading styles in the level of the Table of Contents that they belong, being them on level 1, or some subtitles, etc.
When you click OK you will have your TOC complete, without format other than the one corresponding to it.
I was able to solve this using guidance from
To implement (that is, turn color on or off for a particular TOC entry), the document owner has to switch paragraph types, e.g., from Header 4 to a user-created Header 4 RED.
Details here:
