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Article contributed by Daiya Mitchell The Document Map (View>Document Map) is a great feature that can make navigating a long document much easier. However, in earlier versions of Word, it can create some glitches. The Document Map requires outline levels to function. When you switch into the Document Map, it applies outline levels to things it thinks are headings—usually short, one line paragraphs—regardless of whether you already have headings in the document. It's a bug, or a badly designed feature if you are in a charitable mood. The Document Map cannot operate without these outline levels, but ideally it would have checked to see if any already existed before applying its own. It doesn't. Then random text shows up in the Document Map, and sometimes, in your Table of Contents. Notes:
Preventing ProblemsDon't use the Document Map—use Outline View instead. That's a bit drastic, but Outline View lets you do a lot more than simply navigate, if you read the article. On switching into the Document Map, look to see if a new AutoFormat has been added to the Undo list (the dropdown list from the Undo icon on the toolbar). That's the application of outline levels. Undo it. Remember to check for this every time, though it may not happen every time. Fixing ProblemsIf the main problem is that your Table of Contents has entries you don’t want, you can prevent the Table of Contents from picking up paragraphs that have been assigned outline levels as direct formatting. Simply press Alt-F9 (Mac: Opt-F9) to display field codes. For the TOC field, delete the \u switch and then press F9 to update the TOC. [Thanks to MVP Stefan Blom for this fix.] If only a few paragraphs are affected, you can use the ResetPara command on the affected paragraphs. This will remove all direct paragraph formatting and reset the paragraph to only style-based formatting (the Document Map adds outline levels as direct formatting). ResetPara will not affect direct character formatting (bold, italic, etc) and the usual keyboard shortcut is Control-Q (Command-Option-Q on a Mac). If changing each paragraph individually is not feasible, you can run this handy macro by MVP Klaus Linke. It will reset the outline level of every paragraph to the outline level that is set in the style. It does not affect any other formatting.
If you don’t know what to do with this macro, see this article: "What do I do with macros sent to me by other newsgroup readers to help me out?" |
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