[mso] Re: Publisher/Word - table of contents
- From: "Anne Robson" <anne.robson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:44:13 +0100
Awww Carolyn - sorry if I gave you an attack of the shakes.
I DO know what you mean - it took me a while to summon up courage to try
TOC but believe me when I did it was a breeze. Yes you do need to use
styles - but all you have to do is create a style (or use one of the
inbuilt ones) that only applies to the items you wish to index. Then
when you get to create the TOC at the beginning or end of your mammoth
document (Insert> Reference> Index & Tables > click Table of Contents
tab) you indicate which is the style that marks out those items to be
included, select your leader type and then click OK. All being well
(fingers, toes and everything else crossed) you will then find that you
have a nice, dynamic,
fully-updatable-when-page-numbers-need-to-be-updated Table of Contents.
Allow yourself 30 mins playtime. Take a backup of your file. Take a
cup of coffee or whatever is your poison, read the F1 help on table of
contents and a deep breath. I betcha you will be converted. You might
even find you like styles after all!
Am I right Dian? ;)
Anne
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carolyn O Phillips
Sent: 22 September 2003 15:19
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Publisher/Word - table of contents
Dear Anne R. and all: Can't help but to butt in here. I don't know a
thing about Publisher, but I must question your comment that the Table
of Contents feature in Word is "brilliant." Please explain! Even with a
big third-party documentation book, it took me HOURS to figure out a
table of contents and how to format the entries. Very frustrating and
time-consuming! Plus, to my horror, I discovered that the Table of
Contents process is somehow hooked up with (shudder) Styles! (I recently
had a big, unpleasant run-in with Styles and I'm still not over it.) Is
there, indeed, an EASY way to create a Table of Contents in Word,
WITHOUT using Styles? At this point I am not interested in wrestling
with Styles at all.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, but please don't bash me for
refusing to use Styles. I'll probably get over it, but it will be a
while. C. Phillips
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