Creating a Table of Contents in a Table Format

[lpicka]

I currently have a table in my document that lists a bunch of e-mail messages
showing a summary. It contains the subject in one column and a few other
details in other columns. I want to add a page number column also and then
link the page number down to a section in my document that has all the
details about the e-mail message. I'd like to actually use a table of
contents type of a feature to accomplish this so that in my cell that says
"subject", that would actually display the Heading (subject of my e-mail
message) from my details section below and then the page number column would
display the page that the heading (e-mail message subject) is on. That way
someone can use that summary table as a table of contents and it functions
for when using it electronically (click and it links right to document) or if
it is printed (displays the printed page number they can go to). If I change
a heading below down in my details or if they move to different pages, then i
can simply just say "update TOC" and it will update my whole summary table.
I realize I can accomplish this with bookmarks or cross references but it
will take a long time to build. I have hundreds of messages. Does anyone
have other ideas?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You need to assign a heading style to the subject line of each email message
in the document and then build a Table of Contents using the in-built
facility that makes use of heading styles.

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