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Old 12-31-2020, 05:51 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Which you could have solved by simply using heading classes for your chapter headings, etc. and building the linked TOC and then uploading that, in DOCX format, to KDP.
Explicitly, this means using the STYLE menu in your word processor. NOT just the formatting buttons.
Word has a default set of heading styles:
Heading 1, Heading 2 , etc.
If you use those for parts, chapter headings, subheads, you can generate the TOC automatically.
If you just format each heading with "Bold 24 point" or the like, that won't work.

When exported to HTML, these come out as <h1>, <h2> etc tags, and again the generate TOC will work using those.

After almost 30 years in the business, I've found most authors now have basically zero knowledge of styles, and zero interest when I try to explain why they should use them. In the dawn of the word processing era, people read the manual and learnt how to use the features. Now it's just point and click and 98% of the features are never used.
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