How do I set up a table of Contents for legal documents in Word 2.

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I need to set up complex paragraph numbering through styles and then run a
table of Contents where each entry will not grab more than the first sentence
of rather long paragraphs.
 
Hi Rene,

That's not how Word's TOC feature works. The TOC feature is meant to pull in
the whole of the referenced paras, which should merely be headings that
indicate what follows.

Cheers
 
Are style separators and hidden paragraph marks compatible with numbered
paragraphs? I thought I recalled that they suppressed the numbering, at
least in certain Word versions.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I'm not sure how style separators work. Weren't they supposed to work with
numbered oparagraphs? I thought they kept the paragraph as a single unit, at
least in the body of the document and in print, while at the same time
allowing for a TOC to grab only that first sentence or few words of a longer
paragraph. That was why people used hidden paragraph marks in the past. I
thought style separators were devised to do away with these other tricks, as
a needed concession to the legal industry.
 
If they work, then more power to them! I just thought I remembered that
there were still some problems.

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

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Rene said:
I'm not sure how style separators work. Weren't they supposed to work with
numbered oparagraphs? I thought they kept the paragraph as a single unit, at
least in the body of the document and in print, while at the same time
allowing for a TOC to grab only that first sentence or few words of a longer
paragraph. That was why people used hidden paragraph marks in the past. I
thought style separators were devised to do away with these other tricks, as
a needed concession to the legal industry.
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