Monday, August 5, 2013

Word - Remove Text From Table of Contents

I know this is an MSCRM blog and the first post here is not even remotely MSCRM related, but today is documentation day and when creating documents I'm always losing a ton of time spacing, formatting, and messing with a table of contents.  I was working on a document today where I didn't want to change the style of some text looked but I wanted to remove that text from the table of contents. I didn't find anything from digging around online so I figured I'd make a quick post.

In Word 2010 at least, first click on the text you want removed from the table of contents. Then head over to the References tab, then in the Table of Contents section click on Add Text. Seems strange to me that 'Add Text' is where you'd go to edit things, but there you have it. Then click on 'Do Not Show in Table of Contents' and finally 'Update Table' (Update the entire table) and you're all set.

Make sure the text style didn't change on you, I've seen font sizes get updated when changing from 'Level 2' to 'None' for instance.