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Reading layout loses table of contents
MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003,
automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. |
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Additional finding is that docs created in older versions of MSWord when
attached to emails do not lose their TOC reference #s in Reading Layout. Doesn't fix the problem, but does show that MSWord v9 (at least) file don't get corrupted by Reading Layout. "ASwadener" wrote: MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003, automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. |
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Hi ?B?QVN3YWRlbmVy?=,
Can't remember ever hearing of this, before. What, exactly, is being lost? The entire field code? The bookmarks on which the TOC is built? Something else? Can you give us a set of steps to reproduce the problem so that we can test it? Additional finding is that docs created in older versions of MSWord when attached to emails do not lose their TOC reference #s in Reading Layout. Doesn't fix the problem, but does show that MSWord v9 (at least) file don't get corrupted by Reading Layout. "ASwadener" wrote: MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003, automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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The TOC is actually displayed in Reading Layout, but the page numbers all
show up as page #1. Then when you get out of Reading Layout on that document, the page numbers are still #1. If, however, I simply save the attachment to my hard drive (don't try to open it from an email attachment), then open it from the hard drive all the page #s are correct. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?QVN3YWRlbmVy?=, Can't remember ever hearing of this, before. What, exactly, is being lost? The entire field code? The bookmarks on which the TOC is built? Something else? Can you give us a set of steps to reproduce the problem so that we can test it? Additional finding is that docs created in older versions of MSWord when attached to emails do not lose their TOC reference #s in Reading Layout. Doesn't fix the problem, but does show that MSWord v9 (at least) file don't get corrupted by Reading Layout. "ASwadener" wrote: MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003, automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?QVN3YWRlbmVy?=,
The TOC is actually displayed in Reading Layout, but the page numbers all show up as page #1. Then when you get out of Reading Layout on that document, the page numbers are still #1. If, however, I simply save the attachment to my hard drive (don't try to open it from an email attachment), then open it from the hard drive all the page #s are correct. Interesting. When I view a TOC (created in Word 2003) in the Reading Layout the TOC shows no page numbers at all. This actually makes sense, since the RL "screens" usually will not match up with the actual page numbers. And the TOC field is not consctructed to work with RL "screens". It appears this behavior is controlled by this switch, which Word 2003 apparently includes in the TOC field by default: \z: Hides tab leader and page numbers in Web layout view. However, when I test sending myself a document containing a TOC without this switch the page numbers have not reset to 1. In which version of Word are these documents being created? Are you sure the TOC was showing values other than 1 when it was sent to you? Can't remember ever hearing of this, before. What, exactly, is being lost? The entire field code? The bookmarks on which the TOC is built? Something else? Can you give us a set of steps to reproduce the problem so that we can test it? Additional finding is that docs created in older versions of MSWord when attached to emails do not lose their TOC reference #s in Reading Layout. Doesn't fix the problem, but does show that MSWord v9 (at least) file don't get corrupted by Reading Layout. "ASwadener" wrote: MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003, automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word2003. Sorry, one more clarification... you are correct, no TOC page #s
show at all in reading layout... it's when you open in reading layout and THEN press Esc or change your view that the page numbers all turn to page #1. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?QVN3YWRlbmVy?=, The TOC is actually displayed in Reading Layout, but the page numbers all show up as page #1. Then when you get out of Reading Layout on that document, the page numbers are still #1. If, however, I simply save the attachment to my hard drive (don't try to open it from an email attachment), then open it from the hard drive all the page #s are correct. Interesting. When I view a TOC (created in Word 2003) in the Reading Layout the TOC shows no page numbers at all. This actually makes sense, since the RL "screens" usually will not match up with the actual page numbers. And the TOC field is not consctructed to work with RL "screens". It appears this behavior is controlled by this switch, which Word 2003 apparently includes in the TOC field by default: \z: Hides tab leader and page numbers in Web layout view. However, when I test sending myself a document containing a TOC without this switch the page numbers have not reset to 1. In which version of Word are these documents being created? Are you sure the TOC was showing values other than 1 when it was sent to you? Can't remember ever hearing of this, before. What, exactly, is being lost? The entire field code? The bookmarks on which the TOC is built? Something else? Can you give us a set of steps to reproduce the problem so that we can test it? Additional finding is that docs created in older versions of MSWord when attached to emails do not lose their TOC reference #s in Reading Layout. Doesn't fix the problem, but does show that MSWord v9 (at least) file don't get corrupted by Reading Layout. "ASwadener" wrote: MSWord 2003, when opening an attached document from Outlook 2003, automatically shows the doc in Reading Layout... an annoyance, but that would be fine if it didn't also lose all of the table of contents entries from the original document before it was attached to the email. If you force MSWord to NOT automatically show documents in Reading Layout (via the ToolsOptionsGeneral function), the table of contents remains as it should be. But the default behavior of MSWord IS to view in Reading Layout, so most users who receive docs with TOCs will have this problem. When I'm creating docs for prospective clients, I CANNOT have this problem. I've been having to generate the table of contents and then copy-and-paste it as text to get the document to be presented correctly to the email recipient. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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