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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Mar 7, 2018 7:00PM

On 2018-03-06 3:40 PM, Wolfgang Berndorfer wrote:
> If I generate a table of contents via Word functionalities in a document
> with correct heading semantics, the heading structure seems outlandish with
> one H1.
Regarding the Table of Contents in Word, it is possible to customize
your automatically generated Table of Contents to control exactly which
headings are included and to map heading levels to whatever TOC style
level you desire.

I usually use a single Heading 1 in MS Word for the Title and then use
Heading 2 and below for all the rest. Then I map Heading 2 to TOC 1,
Heading 3 to TOC 2, Heading 4 to TOC 3, etc. And I exclude Heading 1
from the Table of Contents altogether.

And I usually create an additional Heading 2 style that I use just for
the Table of Contents so that the Table of Contents itself does not
appear in the Table of Contents.

Phil.

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Philip Kiff
D4K Communications