Table of Contents Link

[Granpoh]

I created a table of contents at the top of one of my documents. Is there a
way to create a link on each table of contents entry so that when I click it,
it brings me to that section of the document?

Thanks for all assistance

 

[Graham Mayor]

The default settings for a TOC do this without further user interference.
CTRL+Click the TOC page number.
If the TOC is not linking, toggle the display (ALT+F9) and ensure that the
TOC entry has the \h switch eg
{ TOC \h \z \t "Title,1" }

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[Granpoh]

Thanks for the response, but that totally confused me. Can anyone help me
practically?

 

[CyberTaz]

Further to Graham's response...

If you're seeking means of of navigating the document even a hyperlinked TOC
created by Word's Table of Contents feature has some shortcomings; once you
go to another part of the doc there is no "jump-back-to-it" link
automatically available nor does it enable you to go from one part of the
doc to another without returning to the TOC itself.

You might want to investigate the Document Map feature (assuming your
headings have been formatted using Styles). In 2007 you'll find it on the
View Tab as a checkbox, in prior versions look in the View Menu. Info is
available through Help in any version that supports the feature.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Granpoh]

I couldn't figure out how to use the whole table of contents thing. Every
time I tried, it just messed my whole page up.

Instead, I set bookmarks on the various headings throughout the page, then
hyperlinked the "table of contents" list entries I manually created at the
top of the document. This now pretty much fulfills my purpose. All I have to
do is hit "ctrl-click" and it takes me to the chosen heading on the page.

I would like to be able to work the document map better. How do I get it to
where only my "bold-face" headings appear in the document map and not every
little sentence I write.

Thanks for all assistance

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are creating your table of contents manually, then you are creating
an awful lot of work for yourself. See
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

 

[Granpoh]

Everytime I try to use the table of contents feature, my whole page just
turns into a big sloppy mess.

Maybe a table of contents is not specifically what I'm trying to create.
This is an example of what I'm trying to do:

Milk
Bread
Potatoes
Plums
Cupcakes


Milk - Aisle 3
Bread - Aisle 4
Etc.

This is only an example. I'm certainly not trying to create a shopping list
through Word. But what I want to do, is be able to have a simple "guide list"
(formerly referred to as a table of contents by me) that links to the item
descriptions further down the document, without having to scroll through the
whole thing looking for it.

As previously stated, I've discovered a solution, but realize that using the
document map may indeed be much easier. The only problem is I can't figure
out how to only show my headings in the document map without having all the
descriptions and random sentences showing as well.

Thanks for all assistance

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, that's an entirely different situation. For that you might want to use
tabs or a table. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm
and http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/TableBasics.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

 

[Granpoh]

Why exactly would I want to use tabs or tables for that? What specifically do
they enable me to do?

 

[CyberTaz]

Right-Click in the Document Map Pane & select how many levels deep you want
to have displayed. (This may vary with version, but I still don't see that
you've disclosed which version you're using.)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

They enable you to lay out text in tabular form. What you \described didn't
sound to me like a table of contents but more on the order of a tabular
list. I now see the disclaimer about not trying to create a shopping list. A
TOC should do what you want provided you've used headings consistently and
want to have links to those headings or to the pages where they appear.

Can you provide a better description of "a big sloppy mess"? From what you
say about the Document Map, it seems that some of your body text may have
acquired heading styles; see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm (also
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/documentmap/index.html).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

 

[Peter A]

I created a table of contents at the top of one of my documents. Is there a
way to create a link on each table of contents entry so that when I click it,
it brings me to that section of the document?

Thanks for all assistance

AFAIK that's the default. The TOC entries don;t look like links (blue
underlined text) but they work like links.

 

[Henk57]

(e-mail address removed) says...-
I created a table of contents at the top of one of my documents. I
there a
way to create a link on each table of contents entry so that when
click it,
it brings me to that section of the document?

Thanks for all assistance

-

AFAIK that's the default. The TOC entries don;t look like links (blue
underlined text) but they work like links.

Granpoh:
Both generating the TOC and the Document Map feature work with th
built-in heading styles. That you only see yr bold headings may hav
to do with the fact that you have yr subheadings not set with
built-in heading style. Once you have assigned these styles to you
"keywords" they will automatically pop-up in yr document map, a
hyperlink.
The TOC entries are hyperlinked by default, although you may have t
activate them by CTRL+click as Graham pointed out (this depends on y
setting in Tools/Options/Edit, though).
You can also create hyperlinks yourself - jumping not only to we
addrsses but also to positions within yr document. If you followed
hyperlink in yr document, you can go back to the previous position b
[Alt]+Left Arrow.
I hope this clarifies the matter a bit, and doesn't add to furthe
confusion ...