>I am not clear on why you referred to Headers. Header styles include the information to allow a table of contents to be generated automatically. Regards, Dave S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Drawer" <jdrawer07@xxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:22 AM Subject: [mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how?? >I am not clear on why you referred to Headers. > I expect a Table of Contents is always created with respect to the order > in which items appear in the document so there is no way to try to > rearrange the list of contents out of order. Maybe what you want to create > is an Index which is sorted alphabetically rather than by order of > appearance. > > Jonathan > > --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Robert Carneal USA <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Robert Carneal USA <carnealre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [mso] Alphabetizing table of contents- how?? > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 12:31 PM > > 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. 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