TOC showing number of pages in each section

[Compass Rose]

Using Word 2007

I have a document with 20 chapters, and the end of each chapter has a Next
Page Section Break. I also have a TOC, but instead of the TOC showing the
starting page number of each chapter, I want it to show the {SECTIONPAGES}
field for that chapter. Is this possible?

TIA

David

 

[Stefan Blom]

Where in the TOC do you want the number of pages in the section?

If you are saying that you want something like this:

1 Section 1
(Number of pages in section one: X)
1.1 First sub-section..................................................7

2 Section 2
(Number of pages in section two: Y)
2.1 First sub-section.................................................15

that is, the page count being a separate entry in the table of contents, you
can make use of TC fields. These fields won't show in the body of the
document.

 

[Compass Rose]

I'm not sure if we're on the same page. What I want looks like this:

Chapter 1 .........................5 ({SECTIONPAGES} of section 1)
Chapter 2 .........................3 ({SECTIONPAGES} of section 2)
Chapter 3 .........................3 ({SECTIONPAGES} of section 3)
etc.

How would the TC field give this result?

David

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You cannot do it by use of the Table of Contents facility.

It would be possible to use a macro to build such a list.

Assuming that Chapter 1 starts in Section 2 of the document and that at the
location of the selection, you format a paragraph with the necessary tab
right aligned tab stop with a dot leader, if you run a macro containing the
following code, it would create the list that you require:

Dim i As Long, j As Long

j = Selection.Sections(1).Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
With ActiveDocument
For i = 2 To .Sections.Count
Selection.Range.InsertAfter "Chapter " & i - 1 & vbTab &
..Sections(i).Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber) - j & vbCr
Selection.MoveDown wdParagraph, 1
j = .Sections(i).Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
Next i
End With


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Hope this helps,

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[Compass Rose]

Thank you, Doug

I'm assuming that if I edit the document that results in a change in the
number of pages in a section, I would have to re-run the macro.

I had another thought. In each section, I could assigned a bookmark to the
{SECTIONPAGES} field, such as {SET sectionpages1 {SECTIONPAGES}}. I could
then manually set up my "TOC" with the Chapter name, your right aligned tab
stop with dot leader, and then {REF sectionpages1}. Would this work? Would
it update automatically if I did a Print Preview?

Thanks,
David

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Yes, you would have to delete the list previously created by the macro and
then run it again.

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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Yes, I think that the other method that you thought of would work. You will
need to be careful that your {SET sectionpages1 {SECTIONPAGES}} field
constructions do not get deleted however as without field codes toggled on,
there is nothing to be seen.

Assuming that you have SectionPages fields in the footer/header of each
section, it might be better to just apply the bookmarks manually to those
fields.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com