Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote:
Hi Michele

wrote:
I'm using Word 2002 and going a bit crazy. I've got outline headings
and I've updated two of them. They appear fine when I update my TOC,
but when I go to reference them, they just don't appear in the list.

Any ideas what I can do to get them into the list?

The heading wants to start right after the last of the previous page.
Then there is a page break and then my heading on the next page, which
wraps to two lines. Then the line after that is normal.

Let's settle this page break thing first, and maybe your worries with
the heading will go away: don't use a hard page break here, never! Those
beasts have no place at all in a structured longish document (same goes
for empty paragraphs).

If you need every heading of this type to start on a new page, then add
the "Page break before" (paragraph property, in the second tab of the
Format | Paragraph dialogue) to the style. "Keep lines together" and
"Keep with next" are both good ideas for such heading styles (or for any
heading styles, for that). If you do _not_ want every heading of this
type to go to a new page, then add the "Page break before" property only
to the one heading (the one "instance" of this style, so to speak).

Now try again to reference to those headings.


P.S. - Am I crazy to try outline numbering with 40 page document? The
last thing I heard about was that Word didn't handle this very well.
The document just grew.

Not crazy, but you need to setup your outline numbering carefully. If
everything's all right so far, you may leave it for the moment. Should
anything strange happen, look at the standard pages for setting up
outline numbering he

See the section on "Numbering, bullets, Headings, Outlines" (by Shauna
Kelly)
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/
Word's numbering explained (by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...gExplained.htm
How to do it in VBA (by Dave Rado)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/...tNumbering.htm

HTH
Robert
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Hi Robert,

I tried both your ideas, but unfortunatly neither works. I set the
text on my page to both "Keep lines together" and "Keep with next", and
they did, and the TOC worked, but still no selection in cross-reference
heading. Then I tried the 'page break before' and again no go,
although I like this one and will use it going forward.

Let me know if you have any further ideas (I've worked 3 hours already
trying to figure this out!). In the meantime, I will review the links
you mentioned.

You see, I need to prepare large documents. I am a certified Project
Management Professional and I need to prepare large Project Plans with
lots of outlining, tables, pictures, cross-references table of
contents, appendices...the whole nine yards. I'm sure links you sent
will come in handy. I have to learn this.

Someone told me once that FrameMaker was better for this type of thing
so if anyone has any opinion on that I'd appreciate some feedback.

Also, I have a new book to write (well for the author). The first book
she gave me half done in Word so I continued with it, but I'm wondering
if there isn't better software to do that kind of thing, too.

Thanks for your kind reply,

Michele