My "Auto updates" are off, but the TOC is still updating before printing and
as far as I know I have all of the updating options off. I am trying to copy
and paste out TOCs from multiple documents into one master document and I
DON'T want it to update when sent to a printer! ANY help is appreciated - TIA

If you want to prevent tables of contents from updating, you can unlink the
TOC fields before you copy and paste them. To unlink, make sure the cursor is
in the TOC field and then press CTRL+SHIFT+F9.

Note that when you unlink a TOC it is converted to plain text. You cannot
update it again.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Carrie" wrote:

My "Auto updates" are off, but the TOC is still updating before printing and
as far as I know I have all of the updating options off. I am trying to copy
and paste out TOCs from multiple documents into one master document and I
DON'T want it to update when sent to a printer! ANY help is appreciated - TIA

Stefan,

Thanks so much for the info - just what I needed. Actually I am attempting
to link a central TOC (in the Main Document) to many different documents and
haven't been able to figure out a way except for creating the TOCs in each
indivudual documents and then copying and pasting into the central document.
Do you know of any other way - I would love to link the TOCs to update the
main TOC but not sure if this is even possible! Thanks again for your help!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

If you want to prevent tables of contents from updating, you can unlink the
TOC fields before you copy and paste them. To unlink, make sure the cursor is
in the TOC field and then press CTRL+SHIFT+F9.

Note that when you unlink a TOC it is converted to plain text. You cannot
update it again.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Carrie" wrote:

My "Auto updates" are off, but the TOC is still updating before printing and
as far as I know I have all of the updating options off. I am trying to copy
and paste out TOCs from multiple documents into one master document and I
DON'T want it to update when sent to a printer! ANY help is appreciated - TIA

See the following article:

See "Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents"
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148

--
Stefan Blom


"Carrie" wrote in message
...
Stefan,

Thanks so much for the info - just what I needed. Actually I
am attempting
to link a central TOC (in the Main Document) to many different
documents and
haven't been able to figure out a way except for creating the
TOCs in each
indivudual documents and then copying and pasting into the
central document.
Do you know of any other way - I would love to link the TOCs to
update the
main TOC but not sure if this is even possible! Thanks again
for your help!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

If you want to prevent tables of contents from updating, you
can unlink the
TOC fields before you copy and paste them. To unlink, make
sure the cursor is
in the TOC field and then press CTRL+SHIFT+F9.

Note that when you unlink a TOC it is converted to plain
text. You cannot
update it again.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"Carrie" wrote:

My "Auto updates" are off, but the TOC is still updating
before printing and
as far as I know I have all of the updating options off. I
am trying to copy
and paste out TOCs from multiple documents into one master
document and I
DON'T want it to update when sent to a printer! ANY help
is appreciated - TIA