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TOC, automatically update numbering & links?
Hi,
I've been using Word for a long time, and have never needed the advanced features. I recently started working on a long document, where I have a changing Table of Contents. I decided to see if Word could make the updating the TOC easier. I spent a lot of fruitless time trying to get the insert-field-TC to actually do something, rather than just return to the cursor with no error message, no anything. I was trying to do this because the insert-indexes&tables-tables of contents would print the error text "Error! No table of contents entries found" in the document where my cursor was. I finally found a different way of making a TOC in the help pages, by converting the text to type "heading." This worked, but destroyed the formatting (which I fixed). Now the auto-numbering of the numbered items no-longer works (even if I don't "fix" the formatting). If I have 1,2,3,4 in the TOC and want to insert a new 2, the existing 2,3,4 are not renumbered. This makes the whole exercise useless. I was hoping that Word would save me the trouble of constantly changing all the numbers in an evolving TOC. The TOC did put in the right page numbers, and the update seems to work. I still can't get insert-field-TC to do anything at all. (I am putting "text" after the TOC in the window, and I tried adding switches... The Show/Hide Paragraph mark doesn't indicate anything is there, either.) I also need the TOC to point to more than the page number - I want the TOC number repeated where the actual document text is: TOC 1. some stuff 2. more stuff ... MAIN DOCUMENT 1. Some text about some stuff. 2. Some text about more stuff. ... So the numbers need to be linked. So when I insert a new #2 in the TOC, I automatically get: TOC 1. some stuff (*press return here, or whatever works) 2. 3. more stuff ... 1. Some text about some stuff. 2. (*this is automatically added) 3. Some text about more stuff. (*automatically renumbered) ... So a new #2 is automatically added in the main document, and everything below it is renumbered. (I will want to take out the copied numbering in the main document when I'm all done, but I need it while working on it to keep the different things organized.) I was hoping Word would automate this. It appears the TOC was designed to be added after you are all done - which doesn't help me at all. I need the TOC to keep stuff organized while the document is in development. If Word won't do this, does someone know of software under $100 that will? I don't need other fancy word processing features. If Word will do this, I would appreciate some pointers. (I didn't fully research if it will do links, I saw something about that, but I don't know if that's what it means, but if Word won't automatically renumber the TOC when I insert a new entry, then I'm not bothering with it at all, as I'd be doing it manually anyway - renumbering 25+ items so far - will be around 80.) Thanks |
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