Re: Auto TOC in MSWord

Subject: Re: Auto TOC in MSWord
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:10:41 -0500

In our previous episode, Liz Roth said:
>
> Can anyone tell me how to include the chapter, section, and page number
> in the table of contents. I am trying to automate the TOC and index for
> some existing documents that use page numbers that look like this 3-2-1.
> That would be chapter 3, section 2, page 1. I have automated the page
> numbering but can't get the section number to show up in the TOC. I've
> searched high and low for the right field code but haven't been able to
> make it happen. Anyone out there have an answer.
> Thanks

You can't do it for an automatically generated TOC. This drives me
nuts, since I have just about the simplest iteration of this -- a
defined section number (defined with an ASK field) and page number.
And I can't make the ToC do something as simple as show "Overview
[tab] 4-5". You can define _one_ character as the divider, but
usually it's used for the tab.

I had an unfortunately emotional interaction with Word tech support
because the on-line help for ToC entries shows "---" as a divider
character, and I couldn't figure out why I was limited to _one_
character. He finally did the research an explained that the three
hyphens was an artifact -- it should have been an em-dash.

If you find a workaround (other than defining every ToC entry with tc
codes -- I'm not that desperate), please let me know. Otherwise,
we'll probably add the section numbers manually once it's ready to
print. Bleah.

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