Word 2000 Table of Contents

[lawgirl11]

I inserted a table of contents and it is shaded. It does not print shaded but
it appears that way. It is annoying. I tried everything to have it appear as
normal text but nothing happens. My table of contents is set up so that when
you click a page number it automatically goes to that page. Would this be why
it is shaded?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

The clickable hyperlink is not shading it.

Word shades Fields to tell you that they are fields rather than regular
text, and a TOC is a field, where Word generates the text instead of you
typing it.

You can control whether Fields are shaded in Tools | Options | View, but the
shading does nothing but inform you it's a field, so it really doesn't
matter whether it shows up or not.

Also, if you are sending the doc to someone else, I'm pretty sure that what
you set doesn't matter--all that matters is what they set on their computer.

It's nothing to worry about.

You could convert the TOC to regular text, and then it wouldn't be a field.
But it would also not update when the doc changed.