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Subject:Re: Troubleshooting Word RD Field for TOCs From:"John Posada" <writer -at- tdandw -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:39:58 -0500
Use the whole path to each the documents and remember to
include \\ inplace of \ in the file path.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
writer[at]tdandw.com
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From: "Kathryn Marshall" <Kathryn -dot- E -dot- Marshall -at- jpl -dot- nasa -dot- gov>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: Troubleshooting Word RD Field for TOCs
>
> Driving myself nuts here. I'm generating a TOC using
Word's field codes.
> The document looks like this:
>
> { TOC \o "1-3" }
> { RD chapter1.doc }
> { RD chapter2.doc }
> { RD chapter3.doc }
>
> All documents are stored locally (C drive) in the same
folder). When I
> toggle the field code to see the actual TOC that is
generated, all of the
> chapter headings appear (Headings 1-3), but the page
numbers each heading
> in chapters 2 and 3 say "error. bookmark undefined." I
just don't get it. I
> have tried updating field codes, but that doesn't seem to
work. Also, I'm
> only able to generate the TOC when all of the documents
are open.
>
> Anyone have any ideas for getting those darn page numbers
to appear for
> chapters 2 and 3??? I haven't used this feature in a long
time, so maybe
> I'm missing something obvious. (I have checked Word's
online help.)
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