Very kind people on this group, knowledgeable as anyone can be. But I'm
stuck at Square One because I can't wrap my brain around Why WORD associates
a table of contents with a header (a thing which, IMO, a table of contents
has as much intrinsically in common as it does with a footer: i. e., nothing.)

The table of contents is associated with Headings, a type of paragraph, not
page headers.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Hilary" wrote in message
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Very kind people on this group, knowledgeable as anyone can be. But I'm
stuck at Square One because I can't wrap my brain around Why WORD
associates
a table of contents with a header (a thing which, IMO, a table of contents
has as much intrinsically in common as it does with a footer: i. e.,
nothing.)

"Hilary" wrote in message
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Very kind people on this group, knowledgeable as anyone can be. But I'm
stuck at Square One because I can't wrap my brain around Why WORD
associates
a table of contents with a header (a thing which, IMO, a table of
contents
has as much intrinsically in common as it does with a footer: i. e.,
nothing.)


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
The table of contents is associated with Headings, a type of paragraph,
not page headers.


A distinction that was lost on the German localization team, too.
At some time in the distant past, they translated the context menu for
"Headings" with "Kopfzeilen" (Headers), and we've been stuck with that.

? CommandBars("Headings").NameLocal
Kopfzeilen


Klaus

(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.

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.

I have gone to Ms. Kelly's page multiple times, but when I follow her
instructions about Selecting All text, then applying the Heading 1 (or 2, or
3) Style to it, all that happens is that the Font changes. No Table of
Contents appears.

In addition, I repeatedly get the BOLD error message *Error! No table of
contents entries found.*

This shouldn't be as difficult as it is, but thank you for taking the time
to respond.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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.

Make sure that when you apply headings, you either have nothing
selected (so that you see the insertion point blinking) or you have
whole paragraphs selected; otherwise, Word won't apply the heading
styles but only their font formatting to text.

Also, if you inserted the TOC before applying heading styles, you have
to update the TOC. To do this, right-click the TOC and choose Update
Field. If prompted, make sure to update the entire table.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Hilary" skrev i meddelandet
...
I have gone to Ms. Kelly's page multiple times, but when I follow
her
instructions about Selecting All text, then applying the Heading 1
(or 2, or
3) Style to it, all that happens is that the Font changes. No Table
of
Contents appears.

In addition, I repeatedly get the BOLD error message *Error! No
table of
contents entries found.*

This shouldn't be as difficult as it is, but thank you for taking
the time
to respond.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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.