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From: Swift, Daniel P.
Date: Mar 8, 2018 6:02AM

Phil -- I'm curious as to why you would use the H1 for a title instead of the 'title' in Word? My approach has been title, sub-title (if warranted), TOC, and then headers. Taking this approach, the title will not appear in the TOC and you don't have to worry about remapping the headers and the TOC. Am I missing something or doing something completely wrong?

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Phil detailed a great strategy (below) for headings and then generating the TOC from them.

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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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