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If you cancel out of the custom TOC dialog box without changing anything, your original last setting that you OK’d should hold - at least it did for my testing.There are advantages and disadvantages of using either a table of contents or an index in a Word document. Something very strange is going on here, and I suspect it’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)
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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 didn’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 ‘Show levels’ 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.
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For your info, I’m using Office 365, installed locally on a Windows 10 PC. Check that it’s all as you want - if not, repeat these steps changing the paragraph and tab settings until you get it looking how you want.įirst, it’s not you or your document! I think you’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 ).


It’s easy enough to change the TOC levels, but there’s a good chance they won’t indent correctly below the other TOC levels if you’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, that’s usually more than enough. By default, Word inserts a Table of Contents (TOC) with three levels of headings.
