TOC Marks versus Heading Styles

[Joseph N.]

This is probably an old debate, but, since I'm relatively new to
Word, maybe someone here can catch me up on the high points.

One can mark TOC entries manually (I assume), or one can use the
built-in Heading styles. More specifically, when the lead-in
sentence of a paragraph must be in the TOC (or index), one can
manually mark it or use [in Word 2002] the style separator after the
lead-in sentence.

What are the relative merits of one approach versus the other?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Generating the TOC from the built-in heading styles doesn't require you to
change TC fields if you change the text of the heading. But using a TC field
allows you to use different text from what is in the heading.

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