Control table of contents reporting level

[Hazzelbanger]

I have looked through the forums at how to restrict the TOC to level 4 even though the document contains heading levels above 4. The responses to the question tend to indicate changing the template text style to something other than "Heading X". This does not seem right as the document should retain automatically generated heading numbers. Is there some special way of achieving the same effect but not using Heading styles?

Ultimately it would be nice to achieve the same outcome when using Word TOC creation, i.e. set the TOC level when creating the TOC. EA has an option to adjust heading levels such that anything above Level 4 is reported as Level 4 in the TOC. I don't see the point of this feature? I would prefer this feature to function in the same way as Word "show levels" control.

[Dermot]

A means of restricting the heading level is not something that is supported in the library we use. A work around that you can consider is to create a document in Word just with a TOC that is set to provide the first 4 headings, then import that document into a newly created Template in EA (context menu: File | Import).