Tabulating a Table of Contents?

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Kevin Harper

Can anyone help please? I am producing for a Client a number of 150-odd
page documents, each document having 10 or more sections, with each section
having a number of sub-sections.

My Client has a requirement for a TOC to be presented in a tabular format at
the start of the document - basically he requires a table at the start of
the document with the headings "Section", "Title" and "Page", with the TOC
populating the table. I need to provide hyperlinks from each heading to the
relevant section / sub-section.

I'm sure this can this be done by using a hyperlinked TOC in Word (2003),
but how? I can create normal TOCs (with hyperklinks) for the documents with
no problems. I've scoured this news group and various other places but I
can't seem to find an answer to this. I'm rapidly tearing out my remaining
hair over this.

Many thanks in advance.

Kevin Harper
 
Explain to the client that you can provide something functionally
equivalent, but you cannot provide it as a table. Here's what you need to
do:

1. Number the section titles using heading numbering. This numbering will
then be included in the automatically generated TOC, which will also
automatically include the page numbers and hyperlinks.

2. Above the TOC, insert a paragraph that says Section<tab>Title<tab>Page,
with the tab stops set to match those in the TOC.

3. To get an actual tab between the section number and the title in the TOC,
you may have to be devious. I think this requires setting a new tab stop in
the TOC style, then using the \w switch to preserve the tabs that occur in
the numbered headings themselves.

If the client insists on a table, explain that you will have to create it
manually (including recreating it manually every time the headings or
pagination changes), which will be much more time-consuming and prone to
error; of course you will be billing accordingly and will not be responsible
for it if it breaks. <g>

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

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Thanks for the help. I had a sinking feeling that it couldn't be done
"automatically" in the way the Client wanted. A bit of a shame really - it
seems to be one of those tasks that lends itself to automation. Never mind!
Back to the repetition of doing it manually.

Thanks again.

Kevin Harper
 
FWIW, I gather from another post that Word automatically adds a tab after
the autonumbering in the TOC entries, so that would be one less hurdle. I
really don't see why that method wouldn't work just as well.

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

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