Outline numbering with master documents

[simon]

I am writing some database documentation that has 50 or so pages of
narrative text including various tables and figures followed by 150 pages of
appendices. The appendices are auto generated with VBA by querying the meta
data from the database and generating and formatting various tables and code
snippets. Right now I have the text in one file and the auto generated
appendices in another. I want to be able to create tables of contents for
the text, figures, tables and appendices and also add cross references in
the text file to bookmarks in the appendices. I've experimented with
inserting the auto generated file the end of the text file and also creating
a master container for the two sub documents. However, the outline
numbering scheme and other formatting always seems to get corrupted.

Can anyone suggest an approach that might work best in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Simon

 

[macropod]

Hi Simon,

Assuming both documents have an appropriate heading structure, you could put
a TOC in :
.. the narrative document, and supplement that with an RD field pointing to
the appendices document, or
.. a new document with RD fields pointing to both the narrative document and
the appendices document.
Such a TOC will pull together the headings from both documents, without the
need to hold all the material in a single file.

See Word's help file for more information on TOC and RD fields.

Cheers

 

[simon]

Thanks, I will try those suggestions

Hi Simon,

Assuming both documents have an appropriate heading structure, you could
put
a TOC in :
. the narrative document, and supplement that with an RD field pointing to
the appendices document, or
. a new document with RD fields pointing to both the narrative document
and
the appendices document.
Such a TOC will pull together the headings from both documents, without
the
need to hold all the material in a single file.

See Word's help file for more information on TOC and RD fields.

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

I am writing some database documentation that has 50 or so pages of
narrative text including various tables and figures followed by 150 pages of
appendices. The appendices are auto generated with VBA by querying the meta
data from the database and generating and formatting various tables and code
snippets. Right now I have the text in one file and the auto generated
appendices in another. I want to be able to create tables of contents
for
the text, figures, tables and appendices and also add cross references in
the text file to bookmarks in the appendices. I've experimented with
inserting the auto generated file the end of the text file and also creating
a master container for the two sub documents. However, the outline
numbering scheme and other formatting always seems to get corrupted.

Can anyone suggest an approach that might work best in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Simon