[Vrin]

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