


If you have used Heading styles in your document, creating an automatic table of contents is easy. All subheadings should be labeled Heading 3, and so on. All major headings within your chapters should be labeled Heading 2. “Dedication” and “Acknowledgements”) in the style Heading 1. If you want an automatic table of contents you need to label all of your chapter titles and front matter headings (e.g. Microsoft Word can scan your document and find everything in the Heading 1 style and put that on the first level of your table of contents, put any Heading 2’s on the second level of your table of contents, and so on. The easiest solution would be to force the TOC to list text in black but I can't seem to make this happen.You cannot generate any automatic tables without first using styles effectively throughout your document. I've confirmed that the style TOC 2 is the style in the table and that the style shows black text. I've edited the field and modified the font (TOC 2) to be black but that has no effect on the white text. I can select the text in the TOC and change the font color which works, but every time I update the field it reverts back to white.

Of course the white text is on white background and doesn't appear. In those cases, the TOC picks up the entries correctly but the the Table of Contents displays the entry (page numbers are OK) as white text. The template includes heading style 2 where I've changed the text color (in the table, not the style) to white as the fill color is dark. Some of my headings are in tables that are built from templates in quick parts. In Word 2010 I've set up the Table of Contents to create entries for Heading Styles.
