{"id":11351,"date":"2025-01-09T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:59:12","slug":"microsoft-word-custom-table-of-contents-to-omit-heading-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11351","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Word &#8211; Custom Table of Contents to Omit Heading 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I could sort this by adjusting which \u201cstyle\u201d I use when I write documents \u2026 but I <em>like<\/em> Heading 1 as the title, Heading 2 as a paragraph title, etc. To create a table of contents below the title line that doesn\u2019t <em>start<\/em> with the title line and then have everything subordinate to that top item, create a <em>custom<\/em> table of contents:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"686\" class=\"wp-image-11352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-1.png 411w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-1-180x300.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select \u201cOptions\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"470\" class=\"wp-image-11353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-2.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-2.png 527w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-2-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And simply re-map the styles to TOC levels \u2013 Heading 1 doesn\u2019t <em>get<\/em> a level. Heading 2 becomes 1, Heading 3 becomes 2, and Heading 4 becomes 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"477\" class=\"wp-image-11354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-3.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-3.png 545w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-3-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voila \u2013 now I\u2019ve got a bunch of \u201ctop level\u201d items from Heading 2<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"563\" class=\"wp-image-11355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-4.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-4.png 567w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-4-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/word-image-11351-4-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I could sort this by adjusting which \u201cstyle\u201d I use when I write documents \u2026 but I like Heading 1 as the title, Heading 2 as a paragraph title, etc. To create a table of contents below the title line that doesn\u2019t start with the title line and then have everything subordinate to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[691,729,733,2073,740,265,705],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-microsoft-office","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-microsoft-word","tag-ms-office","tag-ms-word","tag-office-365","tag-office365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}