WD: Table of Contents Entries Appear in All Caps (122402)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1
- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1a
- Microsoft Word for Windows NT 6.0
This article was previously published under Q122402 SYMPTOMS
Entries in the table of contents appear in all caps, even though the TOC
styles don't include this format.
CAUSE
This problem occurs if you applied All Caps formatting to the text that is
used for the TOC entry. This problem occurs regardless of whether you
formatted the text in All Caps manually with the CAPS LOCK key, or by using
Heading styles.
Unlike other font formats, the All Caps character format actually changes
the internal representation of the characters to capital letters. Thus, the
table of contents considers the text to have been typed in capital letters
and shows it as such.
WORKAROUND
To avoid this problem, the best method is to not use All Caps format for
text that will be included in the table of contents.
Alternatively, when you finalize the table of contents, select the table of
contents and press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to unlink the TOC field and cause the TOC
results to become normal text. (NOTE: Once the TOC field is unlinked, it
becomes normal text instead of a field, and you will not be able to update
it.) Select the table of contents text and remove the All Caps formatting.
Note that this will change all the selected text to lowercase.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 8/16/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug kbfield kbpending KB122402 |
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