Creating a TOC from multiple cells of a table.

[Scott]

I am working with a document template (created by someone in my team) that
uses a table to format the headings throughout a proposal. The effect is
very nice - and I understand why it was done that way.

However the net result is the the Number portion of a heading and the
heading title are in two different cells. What happens when I create a TOC
is that the Number appears (with no heading text beside it) and then on the
next line the heading appears.

If I moved the number over - I would be fine but the way the document is set
up makes that solution look funny.

Is there any way to get the TOC to read both cells of the table as being
part of the same heading and thus have them appear in the same line of the
TOC.

To be clear they are both set to the same level and style etc etc. They
just are in separate cells so they appear differently to Word.

Also - part of the "look" is to have a line separating the cells so merging
them is is not an option.


Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

S.

 

[Jezebel]

No, there is no way to get the TOC to combine two headings from the body of
the document and present them as a single TOC entry. Notwithstanding the
niceness of the effect, using tables purely for layout is not good practice,
precisely for the reasons you have found. It makes it hard to process the
document content.

And there are nearly always better methods, anyway.

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you want to keep using tables, you will have to create
the table of contents from TC fields.

But, as Jezebel wrote, you probably don't need tables. Why are you
using them?

If you are trying to create the illusion of having paragraph numbers
in the margin area, you certainly don't need any table cells. You can
do the following to actually put paragraph numbers in the margin: In
the Customize Outline Numbered List dialog box, choose "Right" for
"Number position" and set "Aligned at" and "Indent at" to zero. At
"Follow number with," choose "Space" (or "Nothing"). Repeat for each
level of numbering. This will put numbers in the left margin of the
page.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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