How to remove Word heading style without losing the formatting?

Question

I have received a word file where lots of text has the style Heading 1 but was later formatted to not look like the Heading 1 style. Whenever I do a refresh of the TOC it will insert the complete chapter in the TOC.

Is there a way to remove just the Heading 1 meta data and keep the formatting?

Answer 1

Just copy Heading 1 as a new style and apply it. Or copy it to Normal.