Cannot widen my TOC in Word output

[Pierrick Lussan]

Good morning,

I have been trying for over a week to widen the table of contents I obtain in Word 2007 (I am using Flare 4.2). The stylesheet class of my output toc proxy is p.TOC3.

I found some indications in the help system: Using Styles to Determine the Look of a Print TOC, and applied the solution described in that topic: "If you want to change the width of the entire TOC you would first expand the Box property group. Then you would click in the cell to the right of the width property and set the value". Unfortunately, it does not seem to work at all and this is what I get:

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Would someone know how to change this setting?

Thank you,

Pierrick Lussan (Paris, France)

[doc_guy]

The help topic that addresses this is located in:

Features > Table of Contents > Generated TOC for Print-based output > Using Styles to Determine the Look of a Print TOC > How to use styles to determine the look of a print TOC (entire container).

This topic can be found online here: http://tinyurl.com/c4osfg

The trick I'd watch out for here, it to make sure you're editing the PRINT section of your stylesheet when you follow the steps in this help topic.

If that doesn't work, let us know.

[Pierrick Lussan]

This is actually the topic I read before submitting my question.
However, nothing changes, whatever unit and value I set in there (30 px, 80%, 10 centimeters...), auto, inherit...
Besides, what I am supposed to enter in there is not very clear:

For example, if you want to change the width of the entire TOC you would first expand the Box property group. Then you would click in the cell to the right of the width property and set the value.

(set the value... but what???)

[LTinker68]

Try using a fixed width size, not a proportionate width size. Set it to 6 inches, for example, instead of 80%. See if that works. And you'd have to do that for all the TOC levels, not just TOC3. TOC3 only relates to the level 3 topics, so you need to change TOC1, TOC2, etc., too.

[SharpeMagpie]

I have the same problem



I've tried setting the tocProxy width to 6.00 In, this ripples through to all the p.TOC styles, but still no joy.

Is there some other styleheet overriding this, I only have the one Styles.css? I can't control the TOC level either - I've set the mc-heading-level to 1 and I still get every level outputed.

[General Confusion]

I happened upon this post while looking for something else.

CSS sends me into a tailspin, so I cobble it in Word. If you select the entire TOC, you should see a tab character in the ruler (it'll be faint; mine usually shows up at the 6" mark). Click and drag this character to your right margin.

[rekiwi]

Ditto with the TOC headache in v5.

As Maj. General Confusion noted, the width of the TOC has nothing to do with width settings and everything to do with the tab stop that is set automatically for the TOC styles.

I double-checked my Normal.dot template and searched for any other templates that Flare might apply. No dice.

I crawled through my project stylesheets, Flare's app stylesheets and schema definitions, and the DLLs. I found lots of references to setting tab stops, mostly Word interop object interfaces and such, but nowhere can I find where that blasted TOC tab stop is coming from.

Frustrating.

[SteveS]

If you are setting your stylesheet medium, make sure you set it in your target as well!

If you don't it will use the default stylesheet.

HTH

[rekiwi]

Thanks for the tip, Steve. All of my medium settings are consistent.

I think the point I was trying to make is that the effective width of the TOC in Word (the width of the heading, leader, and page number) is determined by the position of the right-aligned tab for the TOCx styles.

I can't find anywhere in Flare's UI or source files a facility that allows me to change the position of that right-aligned tab.

I can change some aspects of the tab with mc-leader-align, mc-leader-format, and mc-leader-offset, but it would be great to have a mc-leader-width or something similar to determine the width of the TOC.

If someone can either point me to the setting I've missed or suggest a programmatic work around, I'll be in your debt.

[rekiwi]

I've tamed this beast.

Specify a negative value for mc-leader-offset for the p.TOC styles (select "Show Generated Content Styles" to filter the Stylesheet Editor). Also, as Steve pointed out, make sure you're working in the correct medium.

This moves the page number to the right of the tab.

I'd still like the ability to set the tab width rather than set the page number position relative to something I have no control over, but I'm a realistic control freak. I'll take what I can get.

[nsemple]

Just wanted to say thank you for this posting.

I am using Flare version 6.1 and encoutered the same issue described here. Setting the box property setting described in Flare's Help does not resolve the issue. Tried everything I could think of (including what others here tried) to no avail. Searched the forums, and found this post.

After following the recommendation to change the mc-leader-offset default property value with a negative value (From the .css, click Show Generated Content Styles, expand the Unclassified Properties set, to find the mc-leader-offset property.), I played around and using a -40 pt value finally got the TOC to be the width I wanted.

THANK YOU!

[General Confusion]

Many thanks.

[Mishou6779]

I just wanted to chime in on this in case there are other 'mericans like me who are using the standard American 8 1/2 x 11 letter paper. These are the settings I want in my Word output:

1. 1" margins all around
2. TOC leader to end on the right at 6.5"

To get that to work I had to use the workaround mentioned here, but I used -60pt (open your .css | Show Generated Content Styles | Medium: print | p.TOC1 through p.TOC9 styles set to -60pt).

So finally, I have my TOC leaders and page references exactly where I want them.

[bushy]

The issue remains in Flare 8.0. But as stated, you can work around it by setting a negative value for the mc-leader-offset property for each of your p.toc styles.

Note: If you are using the Simplified View of the CSS Editor, the mc-leader-offset property appears on the Leader tab as Page Number Width.