[Stefan Blom]

Well, if you can make use of SEQ fields instead of outline numbering, you
can instruct the TOC to include the SEQ field numbers in the TOC. You still
have to separate chapters by section breaks to restart page numbering in
each chapter, and you will have to add the chapter number to the header or
footer (wherever your page numbers reside).

For example:

{ SEQ MySeq } This is a paragraph.

To a SEQ field, do this: Press Ctrl+F9 to add the field delimiters, { }.
Then type the code as shown. Press F9 to update. You can use copy and paste
to duplicate an existing field.

Note that fields update semi-automatically; this will be apparent if you use
copy and paste to create more fields. To update, select the whole document
and press F9 or switch to Print Preview and back. Use Alt+F9 to show/hide
all field codes in the document.

When you have numbering the way you want it, add \s "MySeq" to the TOC field
code:

{ TOC \o "1-3" \h \s "MySeq" }

Update with F9.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Vrin" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Stefan, for your response - I had actually seen both of those
articles in my search for a solution, however, due to my two numbering
schemes (Chapters 1-7 with outline numbering plus a non-numbered executive
summary which still uses Heading 1-4 styles to format the headings) I
wasn't
able to get it to work. So I had hoped to use a workaround by using
custom
page fields until I can work out the "best practices" solution.

Thanks,
Vrin

"Vrin" wrote:

Hi all - I'm hoping someone can help me resolve an issue I'm experiencing
with merging long documents, then creating tables of contents. What we
have
are 8 chapters, all with different authors, which have been formatted
using
styles and figure/table captions with outline numbering, which I've
merged by
using the Insert | File function. My issue is when I create the TOC, all
the
pages numbers have been reset to number sequentially from 1-187. I then
created separate sections (insert section break, next page), so that I
could
re-start numbering for each chapter, but unfortunately the "Include
chapter
number" doesn't work as I get an error message that "There is no chapter
number...must be defined using outline number..." which I'd already done
before merging the documents. So somehow in the inserted chapters the
headings don't appear to be recognized??

So since time is short, I'm hoping a workaround of including text in the
PAGE field will allow the chapter numbers to be picked up by the TOC.
However, I'm not familiar with field codes and how they work, and so mine
aren't working. Any suggestions on how to modify the PAGE field so the
displayed value looks like, "1.1, 1.2... 2.1, 2.2, ...3.1, 3.2, etc.?

Or if there's another solution, I'm all ears. My problem is that the
first
chapter is an executive summary, and uses the heading 1-4 styles,
however,
it's not numbered using outline number, which is causing me headaches.
The
remaining chapters 1-7 do use outline numbering, and somehow I can't
reconcile the two formats into one seamless TOC with the page and
outlining
numbering options we want.

I'm using Word 2003 and Windows XPSP2.

Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Vrin