[Daddy]

I've successfuly created a table of contents in Word 2007, but I can't get it to work properly:

1- If I try to click on a page number, the whole table becomes shaded and I don't go to the page in question.

2- If I click on or near a heading my table becomes surrounded by a blue rectangle with a tiny toolbar on the top left. Only way to get rid of it is to close the document and re-open it.

There's something fundamental I'm missing here...what is it?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Ctrl+Click

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
I've successfuly created a table of contents in Word 2007, but I can't get
it to work properly:

1- If I try to click on a page number, the whole table becomes shaded and I
don't go to the page in question.

2- If I click on or near a heading my table becomes surrounded by a blue
rectangle with a tiny toolbar on the top left. Only way to get rid of it is
to close the document and re-open it.

There's something fundamental I'm missing here...what is it?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

[Terry Farrell]

And to add to Doug's reply, the TOC become grey because it is a field and
selected fields are shaded grey by default.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
I've successfuly created a table of contents in Word 2007, but I can't get
it to work properly:

1- If I try to click on a page number, the whole table becomes shaded and I
don't go to the page in question.

2- If I click on or near a heading my table becomes surrounded by a blue
rectangle with a tiny toolbar on the top left. Only way to get rid of it is
to close the document and re-open it.

There's something fundamental I'm missing here...what is it?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

[Daddy]

Thanks to you both.

Unless I'm having one of those 'senior moments' ;-) I believe that in my
former version of Word (2002), I used to be able to simply click on a page
number or heading in a TOC and be taken directly to the heading in question.
Can't I do this in Word 2007? Ctrl+click was used to follow a hyperlink in
W2002, and even then a tooltip popped up to tell you what to do.

Also: Is there a way to make the blue rectangle w/toolbar disappear other
than by re-opening the document?

Daddy

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
And to add to Doug's reply, the TOC become grey because it is a field and
selected fields are shaded grey by default.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
I've successfuly created a table of contents in Word 2007, but I can't get
it to work properly:

1- If I try to click on a page number, the whole table becomes shaded and
I don't go to the page in question.

2- If I click on or near a heading my table becomes surrounded by a blue
rectangle with a tiny toolbar on the top left. Only way to get rid of it
is to close the document and re-open it.

There's something fundamental I'm missing here...what is it?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If Ctrl+click was required to follow a hyperlink, then it was required for
TOC hyperlinks as well, but you can disable this in the Word Options in 2007
just as you could in the Options in 2002.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
Thanks to you both.

Unless I'm having one of those 'senior moments' ;-) I believe that in
my former version of Word (2002), I used to be able to simply click on a
page number or heading in a TOC and be taken directly to the heading in
question. Can't I do this in Word 2007? Ctrl+click was used to follow a
hyperlink in W2002, and even then a tooltip popped up to tell you what to
do.

Also: Is there a way to make the blue rectangle w/toolbar disappear other
than by re-opening the document?

Daddy

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
And to add to Doug's reply, the TOC become grey because it is a field and
selected fields are shaded grey by default.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
I've successfuly created a table of contents in Word 2007, but I can't
get it to work properly:

1- If I try to click on a page number, the whole table becomes shaded and
I don't go to the page in question.

2- If I click on or near a heading my table becomes surrounded by a blue
rectangle with a tiny toolbar on the top left. Only way to get rid of it
is to close the document and re-open it.

There's something fundamental I'm missing here...what is it?

Thanks for your help.

Daddy

[Terry Farrell]

Now in Word Options, Advanced, 4th setting from the top.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
If Ctrl+click was required to follow a hyperlink, then it was required for
TOC hyperlinks as well, but you can disable this in the Word Options in
2007 just as you could in the Options in 2002.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
Thanks to you both.

Unless I'm having one of those 'senior moments' ;-) I believe that in
my former version of Word (2002), I used to be able to simply click on a
page number or heading in a TOC and be taken directly to the heading in
question. Can't I do this in Word 2007? Ctrl+click was used to follow a
hyperlink in W2002, and even then a tooltip popped up to tell you what to
do.

Also: Is there a way to make the blue rectangle w/toolbar disappear other
than by re-opening the document?

Daddy

[Daddy]

I understand the part about ctrl+click now.

So it looks like I'm stuck with the blue rectangle with the mini-toolbar?

Daddy.

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Now in Word Options, Advanced, 4th setting from the top.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
If Ctrl+click was required to follow a hyperlink, then it was required
for TOC hyperlinks as well, but you can disable this in the Word Options
in 2007 just as you could in the Options in 2002.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Daddy" wrote in message
...
Thanks to you both.

Unless I'm having one of those 'senior moments' ;-) I believe that in
my former version of Word (2002), I used to be able to simply click on a
page number or heading in a TOC and be taken directly to the heading in
question. Can't I do this in Word 2007? Ctrl+click was used to follow a
hyperlink in W2002, and even then a tooltip popped up to tell you what
to do.

Also: Is there a way to make the blue rectangle w/toolbar disappear
other than by re-opening the document?

Daddy