TOC & Heading Styles

[Guest]

I'm working with a Table of Contents generated from Word's Heading Styles
that I've customized. A sample is given below. I want the TOC to include just
the numbers and Section heading (Section 1.1 Property). However, the TOC
includes all of the body text in the section (AAAAAAAA.) What's the most
efficient way to exclude this text from the TOC

ARTICLE I
PROPERTY

Section 1.1. Property. AAAAAAA.

ARTICLE II
INSURANCE

Section 2.1. Leases. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

(a) SUBSECTION

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

1. Type the "Section 1.1. Property" text on one line, and press Enter.
2. Apply a heading style to the section heading line.
3. Type the body text on the next line.
4. Apply a non-heading style to the body text.
5. Click on the ¶ button (on the Standard toolbar at the top of your
screen) to show non-printing characters.
6. Select the ¶ mark at the end of the section heading line, and click

 

[Guest]

Thanks, it seems to work (although I don't understand how). However, it seems
like a lot of work when you have over a 100 sections in a document to
manually do that to every paragraph. Any ideas on automation?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

If you've been using the document map, the tips here might fix your
problem. I'm not sure it's the same issue, though.
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm

 

[Guest]

Hiding the paragraph mark makes two paragraphs (using different styles, one
of which is picked up by the TOC) to appear as one. See
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm.

If you want to automate this, you may want to ask in a programming
newsgroup. But see also Daiya's reply.