Combining multiple docs into 1

[bbrian]

Hi,

Looking for some advice here

I'm creating a document that comprises of 12 sections...1
overview section followed by a complimentary and highly
detailed/formatted technical section. I want to nest the
technical sections within the document and then run a TOC
across the whole thing. How do I go about preventing the
TOC displaying section hedings from within the technical
sections...? Thinking of having two flavours to each
heading level...i.e. "Heading 1 Main" and then "Heading 1"
in the tech doc - when the TOC is built only using the
"Main" headings. Is this the way to go or is there a way of
inserting self contained documents within a master
document?

Apologies for the lengthy question...TIA

Cheers
Brian

 

[martinique]

This is one area where Word is weak. There are several techniques you can
use, but none is brilliantly easy: you'll need to make a choice according to
the quantities of different kind of document.

1. Using custom styles. If you click the Advanced button on the Table of
Contents dialog you can select which styles are to be included in the TOC,
and the level at which they'll be included.

2. Use TC fields: these explicitly specify the text and level of each TOC
entry within the body of the document. You can use search and replace,
search (eg) on paragraph style, to create these fields.


BTW, while you're editing the document, 'comprises' doesn't take OF. Your
document comprises 12 sections.