[mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how??

A table of contents is in page number order.  That's what they are.

You are talking about an index.  The index will be in alphabetical order by 
default.

I don't know whether you can configure the heading styles to generate index 
entries, or if you will need to include separate index information.

If you want your table of contents in alphabetical order, then your actual 
contents will need to be in alphabetical order.  It's not difficult to move 
the sections around.

Robert, we keep getting questions from you on different aspects of the same 
problem.  You never comment on why the solutions we've offered in the past 
are not suitable for your problems.  For instance, I addressed the question 
of getting the sections into alphabetical order so that the table of 
contents would be in alphabetical order in response to your subject "Auto 
resorting by page title?" on 24 December.  In fact, in a second answer to 
that same question, on the same day, I had said "A table of contents does 
not sort.  It is in the order of the pages within the document".  Yet now, 
you are asking how to do it anyway.

Please keep previous answers in mind, and comment on why you are asking 
similar questions in a different way.  Otherwise, people will get annoyed.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Carneal USA" <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 4:31 AM
Subject: [mso] Alphabetizing table of contents- how??


> Hello everyone.  I am working on a document that uses Headers and the
> information is not being entered in alphabetical order. Therefore,
> when I create a table of contents, it looks like this:
> Anderson, James.....2
> Davidson, Denise....3
> Brown, Mark.........4
> George, Kathy.......5
> Epplworth, Dave.....6
> Applebee, Laura.....7
>
> This would force me to scan the enter list to look for Dave
> Epplworth. I tried to sort the table of contents, but Word says it
> cannot be sorted. (I am using Word 2000.)
>
> I would much prefer the table of contents look like this instead:
> Anderson, James.....2
> Applebee, Laura.....7
> Brown, Mark.........4
> Davidson, Denise....3
> Epplworth, Dave.....6
> George, Kathy.......5
>
> Sure, the pages are out of order, but that is ok. I'd much rather
> have the names in order. Can I do this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Robert
>
>
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