Reformatting Table of Contents to add indentation

Question

For some odd reason my table of contents doesn't add indentation for each subsection. Should I recreate it or can I reformat it?

Note: there's a lot more content than just this, so it wouldn't be a two second recreate.

Solution

Figured out one way,

Using the Increase Indent button

However there are two cases

• Case 1: It works perfectly for the item
• Case 2: The item jumps all the way to the right side of the the Table of Contents, so you have to hit backspace at that line once, then add amount of spaces equivalent to an indent, or match it with the line above it.

Comments

[Adam]

This solution isn't very long lasting because as soon as you update the TOC the formatting will revert to how it was.

[Andrew Jens]

In Word 2017 the formatting change remains after updating the TOC.

[Iancovici]

@AndrewJens, did you right click toc, and say update all fields after?

[Andrew Jens]

@Iancovici, yes I chose the "Update entire table" option. All good.