How to make subheads italic, but not italic in TOC?

[Kate]

I have a Word doc in which some subheads must be italic, but I don't want
them to be italic in the TOC. How do I make them different? Thanks!

 

[Deborah]

If you're generating a TOC based on styles the headings in italics in the
body of your document should not be italicized in the TOC.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You must include the italic formatting as part of the heading style. If it
is applied as direct formatting, it will show up in the TOC.

 

[Kate]

OK, I created a new style called Level 2 Subhead that's based on Normal plus
italic, double-spaced. I manually removed the italic from the first few
subheads, and then, in the Style formatting pane, I selected each subhead and
clicked Clear Formatting, and then clicked Level 2 Subhead. I did this for a
few TOC entries, and then updated the entire TOC and looked at it in Print
Preview, but the entries that I designated Level 2 Subhead still show up
italic. Do you have any more suggestions? Thank you!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

TOC styles are set to update automatically, though I find this is more
dependable for paragraph than for character styles; still, I wonder if the
TOC style could have picked up the italics. If you have done everything just
as you describe it, including updating the entire TOC, then I can't explain
what you're seeing.

BTW, is there some reason you're not just using Heading 2 for your Level 2
subheads?

 

[Kate]

Because I need to have all the TOC entries Times New Roman 12-pt, with no
bold or italic. I guess I could modify the Heading 2 style, right?

 

[Kate]

I modified the Heading 2 specs and it worked. Thank you so much! You MVP's
are the best.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I was afraid you were going at this backward and trying to modify the
TOC entries directly (which you can't do) rather than the headings
themselves.