Since the Styles course opened, I've gotten questions from students about specific situations they're seeing. Here are a couple of interesting questions and my answers:
You've built a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word using the Styles feature to mark the TOC entries or by marking them manually. And just when you're about to pat yourself on the back for having an automatic Table of Contents in your document, you notice something's a little ... off. Maybe the font's not quite right. Or perhaps the font's okay but the spacing's not. Or the indentation. Or you want/don't want the dot leaders running up to the page numbers.
Suffice it to say you just want to alter the format of it. But how?
One of the things I'm on a rant about these days is loooooong documents. Complicated documents, like 20+ page contracts and appellate briefs and stuff like that.
Why? Because they always seem to need special stuff inserted in them. Like custom headers and footers. And level-1 and level-2 and level-out-the-wazoo headings. It's enough to make your head spin.
But if you've got mad skills and you plan your document right, a lot of this stuff becomes easier. Like putting in a simple table of contents, for example.