If each section is a separate file, and you use the RD (Referenced Document)
field to call it in to the Table of Contents, which also is a separate
document, then the page number will appear in the TOC exactly as it does in
the original document.
So:
1) Divide your document into separate files, one for each section and one
for the TOC.
2) In each File, set up to Include Chapter Number with Page Number
3) In the TOC Document, add an RD Field for each of the files to be
included. Read the Help on RD Fields carefully: note that you have to
double the back-slashes in any file path names you include in them.
4) Insert a Table of Contents as described in the Help.
Word will automatically open each of the RD files and scan their content for
TOC headings. The page numbers it includes will be those copied from the
original document, which will not update depending on the position of the
file in the final print job.
To print the thing, simply select all the files in Windows File Explorer or
My Computer, right-click and choose Print. Word will open each file in turn
and print it.
Hope this helps
from said:
Maybe. You tell me .
I work with legal (contract) documents that have sections labeled
something like "Section K". the contents of Section K must always be
in K, not H, not I, etc...
These sections are often prepared by different people and then merged
together at the very end. To add confusion, some sections are used in
multiple documents. (Sections L and M appear both in the Request for
Proposal as well as the Source Selection Plan). I need to esnure that
the page numbering does not change bewteen these documents (Page 5 in
the SSP and page 25 in the RFP is not acceptable...should be Page L-2
in both).
So, if I use the heading numbering feature as described in the MVP
page, the chapter Letter will float with it's order in the document.
I guess I can use the "start at" feature, but I will have to play with
it for a while.
AFJ
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