printing/saving just the outline

[Bennett]

How can I print (or even better yet, save to another file)
just the outline, with all the accompanying text?
Thanks,
Bennett

 

[Bennett]

correction -- withOUT the accompanying text.
Bennett

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi Bennett,

I haven't figured out any way to save or copy just the outline portion,
exactly.

If you hit Print while in Outline View, you will get whatever is showing on
the screen. *Do not* go through Print Preview first, there's a bug where
Print Preview in Outline View gives the wrong info.

You can save/copy the doc structure by temporarily creating a TOC in the doc
and copying that text to another doc. You might need to lock or unlink the
TOC field before you copy it, or maybe after....

DM

 

[Bob S]

I haven't figured out any way to save or copy just the outline portion,
exactly.

There doesn't seem to be a built-in way to save just the outline. It
would be a nice feature.

If someone wanted to be ambitious with macro writing, perhaps one
could create a new document and run through the old document and copy
and paste any paragraph with a heading level.

If one didn't mind having page numbers, another approach would be to
create a TOC, convert it to text, and save that.

Bob S

 

[Stefan Blom]

It's quite possible to exclude page numbers from a TOC, by using the
\n switch with the TOC field code. For example:

{ TOC \o "1-9" \n "1-9" }

would produce a table of contents without page numbers.

Use CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to convert the TOC field to text, which you can then
cut and paste into a new document.