Reformatting Table of Contents to add indentation

Question

For some odd reason my table of contents doesn't add indentation for each subsection. Should I recreate it or can I reformat it?

Note: there's a lot more content than just this, so it wouldn't be a two second recreate.

Answer 1

Figured out one way,

Using the Increase Indent button

However there are two cases

• Case 1: It works perfectly for the item
• Case 2: The item jumps all the way to the right side of the the Table of Contents, so you have to hit backspace at that line once, then add amount of spaces equivalent to an indent, or match it with the line above it.

Answer 2

The ToC field can gather information from paragraphs of particular styles and TC fields. In the ToC, you can specify the level that you want each paragraph style to appear at. If you are using TC fields, OTTOMH you can specify the level in the field. When Word generates the ToC, it applies the paragraph style TOC1 to Level 1 items, TOC to to Level 2 items, and so on. So you probably either need to fix which paragraph styles (or TC entries) are associated with which level, or fix your TOCn style definitions.

Answer 3

You need to edit the TOC styles and fix the indentation. This page on the Office help site gives a good walkthrough on how to edit the TOC styles.