See:

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Hilary" wrote in message
...
(Thank you to Doug Robbins.)

I spent the better part of a splendid Memorial Day trying to create
my first
"automatic" TOC. I copied a "hand-made" TOC to a New Document, then
went
through the InsertTables and Fields [this is WORD 2000](rest of
the stuff).

Each time I did this and tried to apply the template to my Pasted
selection,
an error message in BOLD showed up saying basically "There is No
Text to
Apply Formatting To" (or something to that affect.

If you could tell me what I did wrong, I would very much appreciate
it. And
again, I'm asking for the titles of any hard-copy books or websites
where
mastering the more complex and technical aspects of WORD are taught.
I
Firefox-ed a page that literally calls itself "Complex Aspects of
WORD," but
for my purposes, I would appreciate a book or interactive CD.

Thank you.