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Table of Contents
I would like to build a table of contents, but have run into a problem or
two. I have defined my own outline styles. I find it much simpler to define level 1, then to base level 2 on level 1, etc. rather than having to undo all of the formatting for the built-in heading styles and then redefining each style. I don't know if that is relevant to my question, but there it is just in case. The problem I am having is that I would like to limit the TOC entry to something less than an entire paragraph. Let's say my custom styles are Level1, Level2, etc. If I base a TOC on those styles, entire paragraphs show up in the TOC and I cannot figure out how to change that to a few descriptive words. If a Level2 paragraph starts with "General Procedures - These are some general guidelines ...", all I want in the TOC is "General Procedures", but I cannot edit the TOC entries. Can I use the TOC, or do I need to insert individual hyperlinks to places in the document or something like that? I have read the MVP article on the use of switches, and have looked at Help, but my situation does not seem to be covered. |
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See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/RunInSidehead.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BruceM" wrote in message ... I would like to build a table of contents, but have run into a problem or two. I have defined my own outline styles. I find it much simpler to define level 1, then to base level 2 on level 1, etc. rather than having to undo all of the formatting for the built-in heading styles and then redefining each style. I don't know if that is relevant to my question, but there it is just in case. The problem I am having is that I would like to limit the TOC entry to something less than an entire paragraph. Let's say my custom styles are Level1, Level2, etc. If I base a TOC on those styles, entire paragraphs show up in the TOC and I cannot figure out how to change that to a few descriptive words. If a Level2 paragraph starts with "General Procedures - These are some general guidelines ...", all I want in the TOC is "General Procedures", but I cannot edit the TOC entries. Can I use the TOC, or do I need to insert individual hyperlinks to places in the document or something like that? I have read the MVP article on the use of switches, and have looked at Help, but my situation does not seem to be covered. |
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Thanks. I've read the article now, and will give that a try. I'll just
mention that I do not find Word's Help to be any more helpful on this subject than it is on other subjects, but your linked article explains something that sounds vaguely familiar what I read (and found inscrutable) in Help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/RunInSidehead.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BruceM" wrote in message ... I would like to build a table of contents, but have run into a problem or two. I have defined my own outline styles. I find it much simpler to define level 1, then to base level 2 on level 1, etc. rather than having to undo all of the formatting for the built-in heading styles and then redefining each style. I don't know if that is relevant to my question, but there it is just in case. The problem I am having is that I would like to limit the TOC entry to something less than an entire paragraph. Let's say my custom styles are Level1, Level2, etc. If I base a TOC on those styles, entire paragraphs show up in the TOC and I cannot figure out how to change that to a few descriptive words. If a Level2 paragraph starts with "General Procedures - These are some general guidelines ...", all I want in the TOC is "General Procedures", but I cannot edit the TOC entries. Can I use the TOC, or do I need to insert individual hyperlinks to places in the document or something like that? I have read the MVP article on the use of switches, and have looked at Help, but my situation does not seem to be covered. |
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