When I am creating a heading in a word document and adding content to it, it is collapsing all the paragraphs added after the heading. But I want only few lines of text to be collapsed and retain the remaining. How can I achieve this?
Collapsing headings always collapsed everything below the heading. There is no option in Word allowing you to only partially collapse the text.
A collapsed heading is indicated by an outlined triangle to the left of the heading text as you can see here:
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I started with the minimalist table of contents title style, in other words based on the ToC Heading template. The important aspect is this template creates a vertical bar to the left of the title (picture below).
I would like to reproduce this for all of my headings throughout my document. My conundrum is the following:
As the base style is ToC Heading and not Heading 1, the table of contents will not reference it.
When I modify the base style from ToC Heading to Heading 1, the table of contents will naturally reference it; however, the vertical bar to the left of the title name is lost, as Heading 1 does not include this bar.
In other words, I want to keep the vertical bar, but it seems that only a ToC Heading base includes this aesthetic.
Picture (vertical bar can be seen in the document; style is based on ToC Heading)
How can I either force the table of contents to recognize my custom style as a heading to reference, or how can I retain the same aesthetic in my custom style after switching to a Heading 1 base?
Thank you!
Found it.
Highlight existing table of contents (highlighting the ToC title will create a menu above and to the left. Clicking on the ":" will highlight everything).
Click reference tab, look at the icon to add a table of contents, and click the arrow for a drop down menu.
Select custom table of contents from here.
Go to format. My custom style appeared there. I selected 1 as its heading level. It is now treated the same as Heading 1.
Add this table of contents and check the option to replace the current table.
Hope that helps someone else!
I have a long table. Not realizing that headings inserted inside a table don't appear in the Outline View or the Navigation Pane (See Blom's answer to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_other/headings-do-not-appear-in-navigation-pane/c3ff186f-8363-47e2-9f46-8f2cf83d78b4), I put a bunch of Heading 1 and Heading 2 headings inside my table. Now I'm having trouble jumping around inside my document.
The brute force approach that has occurred to me is to split the table after every heading, and take the heading out of the table.
Any other ideas?
MS Word 2010.
This is a known issue and Stefan Blom's answer still holds:
It is a known limitation in Word that headings inside table cells won't appear in the Navigation pane. For what it's worth, the same thing applies to the predecessor of the Navigation pane, the so-called Document Map, in older versions of Word.
As you have noticed, Word properly adds headings inside a table to the TOC, fortunately.
If you want the headings to appear in the navigation pane you have to place them outside of tables, i.e. your suggested approach is the way to go.
If you still want the heading to appear like it is part of the table you can simulate that by adding a paragraph border around your heading. (Note: This still does not work if it is in a table cell. You must be outside the table cell.)
I had the same problem and found useful this alternative:
Select desired text inside the table and insert Bookmarks from Insert > Bookmarks:
Type a Name and add the bookmark :
Use Bookmark Panel (CTRL+SHIFT+F5) or "Go To" command to navigate inside the document
In my case, headings weren't shown because I mixed heading and body text. Example(black text: heading):
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So I solved it putting the body text below
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Displays records if any condition is TRUE
What I'm trying to do is create a bullet list in 'two columns'. So you have the bullet, a word, a tab and some aligned text like in the example below.
You have several alternatives:
Create a two-column table, with invisible lines. Fill the first column with your "bullet" word, and the second column with your "definition" (or whatever you are putting there.
Adjust the formatting for your special list item to include a tab where you want the text to appear and provide a "hanging indent" that lines up overflow text with that tab.
The second option is probably the best for you.
In Visio 2013, I have a connector that is in a container that has a gray background color. I successfully changed the background color of the text block by following these steps:
Double-click the connector
Expand the font options by clicking on the icon in the lower-right portion of the 'Home > Font' ribbon area
Click on 'Text Block' tab in the 'Text' dialog
Select 'Solid color' and choose the background color that matches the gray container background color
That works as expected - my text background color is no longer the default white; it now matches the background color of the container.
However, I want to add spacing to the left and right of the text. I tried increasing the margins in the same 'Text Block' tab of the 'Text' dialog mentioned above. This increased the margins but did not extend the background color of the text. A also tried manually adding spaces to the left and right of the text. The leading spaces worked, but the trailing spaces where truncated. Is there any way to add left and right padding to the text (similar to css padding)?
Modifying the text block location/size may give you what you want, combined with text margins.
To modify the text block location, you have to click the text block tool, which is on a dropdown with the text tool (at least in Visio 2003).
I know this is an old question, but I had the same question myself and wasn't able to (quickly) find an answer out there either. I finally hit upon a trick that'll get the result we're looking for:
Instead of spaces, add leading and trailing characters to the longest line in the text box. (I use ".")
Change the color of ONLY those added characters so it matches the text box's background.
The text box's background reaches to the furthest edge of the text within, and we're just using that to get what we want. Since it's just moving the edge indirectly, I consider it a "trick" that we can use instead of a "fix".
Quick list of Cons:
The text box background color has to be solid, or close to it.
The "invisible" text will still exist, so it'll show up in a copy/paste of the text.
Similarly, it may make Searching/CTRL+F for things within the document/file more difficult.
You can use No-Break Space. Insert it from Insert > Symbol.
Is there a good way to make horizontal lines actually line up in Crystal Reports? I can select text and field objects, right-click, and do various sizing and alignments. But that's not an option with a line. I need header fields underlined (and for whatever reason, our standard says to NOT use underline), and I want them to line up across the report.
It's a pain, but I've found one way to do it.
Both field and line items have a right-click menu option called "Size and Position". It doesn't take just any value, especially with Snap to Grid turned on (and doesn't always take exactly what you choose with it not turned on), but you can carefully make sure each line has the same Y value (for horizonal lines). And, if you want them to align and be the same length as the field headers they are underlining, compare each header field X and Width values, and make each line also match that.
In design mode, you can add horizontal guide lines by clicking in the ruler (the vertical one) fields will get sticky to it.
You can also select several fields, right click "Align > Bottoms" and them move the fields to the guide lines.
You can also format a single field to "lock its position and size", then Align the others to it
Another way is to select all the lines you want to left align, move them to the far left with the left cursor key until they hit the left margin and keep pressing the left key until they all align themselves. Just a trick!
Put a bottom border on the header Text Object.