Table of contents roundup

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Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:47:27 GMT

Steve --

A table is static text, but the TOC is generated dynamically. If you separate the TOC from the bookmarks it's looking for, it breaks. The best way to print it is to just print those pages, without taking it out of the document. The next best way (if it's on one page), is to take a screen shot of it (or use the Screen shot tool in Word 2010).

And when you're tweaking formatting, be sure to check out the "Format a table of contents" that's linked to in the post above. Follow those instructions to add formatting that will stick even when you update the TOC.

-- Joannie

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songster7 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:26:29 GMT

I'd like to take the existing Contents pages, copy to another new document ... and then tweak the formatting and PRINT the thing out. however, when I try to it turns page numbers into "Error! Bookmark not defined." I can convert a Table to Text, why not a TOC?

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Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:14:39 GMT

ambrosia_records--

Are you using field codes for PAGE and SECTIONPAGES? If you're using a prebuilt design from the gallery, which one?

-- Joannie

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ambrosia_records — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:25:25 GMT

Hi there,

I've got a contents page, page numbering issue. I need the page references to read 1-1, 2-1, 3-1 etc on the contents page. It was doing that, but has now reverted to ignoring the section number and only acknowledging the page number making it appear like the everything starts on on page 1.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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baghul — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:50:35 GMT

Joannie,

Thank for all the good related info. Also found another good page about TOC in Word 2007.

Including the link

www.learningcomputer.com/.../word-references-tab.html

Baghul

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Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:11:36 GMT

Wondering about Word --

You can definitely do this by inserting TC fields and adding the text that you want in quotation marks. Then, when you build your table of contents, you include the \f switch (or in the Table of Contents Options dialog box, select the Table entry fields check box). The only problem is that this doesn't feel very automatic, because you have to insert all those TC fields. But it will give you the results you want. For more information, see office.microsoft.com/.../field-codes-tc-table-of-contents-entry-field-HA102017492.aspx.

-- Joannie

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Wondering about Word — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:11:25 GMT

Thanks Joannie

Anything you can find out will be much appreciated.

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Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:19:44 GMT

Wondering about Word --

I'm not sure, but I'll look into this.

-- Joannie

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Wondering about Word — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:07:05 GMT

Hi Joannie

I'm new to this site, but I am very curious about Tables of Contents and have been reading avidly. I currently have a table of contents in Word 2007 that I am trying to make from documents that have two headings in the same style next to each other, a title and a number. The title is on the left of the page, the number is on the right, but I want the table of contents to read number title.........page. e.g. 001 Mountains............3.

Sadly, at the moment all I can get it to do is read

Mountains................3

001............................3

Is there anything I can do about this - can I tell the table to take the number first and put it all on the same line - should I be encasing the number in a field code of some type? Is what I want to do even possible?

Your advice would be much appreciated.

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Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:51:09 GMT

Betty --

It does depend on which versions of things you're running. Here's an article to get you started: office.microsoft.com/.../repair-or-remove-office-2010-HA010357402.aspx.

-- Joannie