Creating Table of Contents

[Guest]

I am having great frustration in creating a table of contents in Word 2003.
I want to use my own marked info, not heading styles/levels. I did the
alt-shift-o and with the chapter headings I selected them to be level 1. All
seemed fine until I went to insert the TOC – at that point all sorts of other
things (things not marked by me) showed and the things I marked did not show.
I tried using the help and instructions but it doesn’t seem to make sense to
me for where I am stuck. Any help you can provide would be super!!!!

Thanks.
Kathy

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Can you
a. use Alt-F9 to show the field codes for your TOC field and one of your TC
fields. If necessary, click the Show/Hide button in the Standard Toolbar (or
check Tools|Options|View|All) to show hidden text
b. tell us what those field codes say?

Peter Jamieson

 

[CyberTaz]

When you generated the TOC, did you go to the Options in the Insert>
Reference> Index & Tables - Table of Contents dialog box, check the box for
TOC Fields *and* clear the Styles checkbox?

If that isn't the problem post back with additional specifics about exactly
what you did and exactly what it rendered - and specify your version of
Word.

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

 

[Guest]

This worked perfectly - thank you! I hadn't de-selected the styles and
hadn't checked the tables fields. thank you.

 

[CyberTaz]

No problem - glad it was that simple!

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac