[Futureberry]

Hello...

I've created an automatic table of contents in Microsoft Word 2007. So far so good.

Once the table was created, I renamed all of the content lines to make them shorter and catchier, especially as some of the headings were actually paragraphs.

I have now added a little section right in the middle of my document. I'd like for this to show up in my table of contents.

When I ask it to update the numbers only, it doesn't add in the new section into the contents list.

When I ask it to update the whole table, it changes all my lines back to the originals.

Honestly, all I want to do is add a new section. Can I insert / link it manually? Can I automatically update without changing all the line names? Any other magical and/or mystical methods to do this?

#despair

Many thanks in advance

Nathan

 

[macropod]

A Table of Contents links to headings in the document via a TOC field. Changing the content of a Table of Contents is futile; as soon as it refreshes (e.g. when you print the document) all your edits will be lost. If you want to change what appears in a Table of Contents, change the headings in the body of the document. Likewise, for your new content, only headings which employ the Heading styles used by the TOC field will be picked up when the Table of Contents is updated.

 

[Futureberry]

Thanks Mac, I've selected the relevant heading styles now, and also done the 'Add Text' thing to say what level I want it at in the TOC... but still having to choose between a) it not appearing at all, and b) it appearing now but all the TOC titles reverting to what they say in the document rather than the headings I changed them to. Looks like as you say I'll have to alter the headings in the document so that they're actually consistent with what I want them to say in the TOC.

#hassle

Thanks though. I would've spent another thousand years looking for a solution in Word itself, which would have ended the same way as A. F. Kebo's fabled search for the rainbow unicorn.

Cheers.

 

[macropod]

If you want to have the Headings (which are appear in the TOC) before other content in the same paragraph (which are not appear in the TOC), first split the heading into two paragraphs. Next, apply a non-heading Style to the paragraph that isn't to be included in the TOC. Finally, in the heading paragraph that is to be included in the TOC, press Ctrl-Alt-Enter to turn the paragraph break into a Style Separator (a kind of hidden formatting). Now, when you update the TOC, only the heading paragraph content will appear.