How do I insert a title for a TOC?

[Geranium]

I have created a TOC, and a Table of Figures for my thesis while working in
Word 2003 Master Doc - but am unable to insert a Heading 1 title into the
TOF so that it appears in the TOC. And the TOC itself appears without a title
at the top. How can one insert a title while working in Master Doc mode?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Insert the titles above the table of figures and table of contents,
using the appropriate paragraph styles. For a table of contents title,
you wouldn't use a style picked up by the TOC, of course.

Note also that master documents could cause document corruption. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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I have created a TOC, and a Table of Figures for my thesis while working in
Word 2003 Master Doc - but am unable to insert a Heading 1 title into the
TOF so that it appears in the TOC. And the TOC itself appears without a title
at the top. How can one insert a title while working in Master Doc

mode?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Geranium]

Thanks for the warning, which I have received before. But I know no other
route than a Master Document for producing automatically an accurate Table of
Figures and Table of Contents for my 80 000 word thesis. I treat the Master
Doc as a virtual rather than actual file, and use it only for printing a
draft, and do not save it.

 

[Geranium]

Thanks. In the meantime I actually tried inserting the titles as you suggest
(which I had previously avoided through my well-founded fear of destabilising
the Master Doc) and succeeded. Hope I can repeat the trick when I come to
print the final version of my 80 000 word thesis.