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Subject:RE: Word Outline and Doc Map Problem From:"Lisa Priester" <lpriester -at- castandcrew -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:00:41 -0700
Jim,
I did the same thing (figuratively tearing my hair out) and finally found on
the Word MVP site that this behavior is a bug that appears when you use the
document map and have one-line paragraphs following a heading (a subtle
pattern to suss out, I must say).
Here is a macro that fixes the level. I added it to my "AutoOpen" macros
that run when I open a document. Select all and Ctrl+Q will do the same
thing, I believe.
This macro resets the heading level to that specified in the paragraph style
'
Dim myPara As Paragraph
For Each myPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
myPara.OutlineLevel = myPara.Style.ParagraphFormat.OutlineLevel
Next myPara
Lisa Priester
IT Document Specialist
Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, LLC.
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Subject: Word Outline and Doc Map Problem
Okay, I've just spent 20 minutes in Word Help, the Microsoft KB, and on the
Web and can't find an answer to this one. I'm working in Word 2003/XP. I use
custom heading styles, which I have set to different outline levels through
the Styles pane. That is, "Custom Heading 1" is Outline Level 1, "Custom
Heading 2" is Outline Level 2," etc.
Up until yesterday, these headings were outlined properly in the Document
Map and Outline View. But I did something yesterday that made them go all
kaflooey. Yes, that's a technical term. Now some headings appear, others
don't, captions now appear in the Doc Map and at heading levels in the
Outline View even though "Caption" style is still at "Body Text" outline
level, and most are not indented. Anybody have experience with this? Even
better, a solution?
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