Suppressing outline no. in table of contents

[Sarah R]

My table of contents is built using heading styles:

Heading 1: a) TEXT
Heading 2: i. Text

Although the outline numbers should appear in the main text (as they do), I
don't want them in the TOC. Is there a switch (can't find any such Help or
previous questions in this forum) or other workaround to suppress those
automatically generated numbers in the TOC?

Thanks.

-- Sarah

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Sarah

My table of contents is built using heading styles:

Heading 1: a) TEXT
Heading 2: i. Text

Although the outline numbers should appear in the main text (as they do), I
don't want them in the TOC. Is there a switch (can't find any such Help or
previous questions in this forum) or other workaround to suppress those
automatically generated numbers in the TOC?

Short of manually building the "TOC" by inserting cross references to
all your headings, none that I could think of.

It's a rather peculiar wish, OTOH: the outline numbers/letters serve as
an orientation to the reader. Showing them in one place and not in
another will be distracting at best.

HTH
Robert

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, you *could* do it with TC fields. Provided the headings are not likely
to change much, this would be fairly straightforward: select the heading,
press Alt+Shift+O, and accept the entry.

 

[Sarah R]

Thank you both, Robert and Suzanne. I agree that the request is peculiar;
suffice it to say that I train legal secretaries, whose bosses appear to
suffer frequently from such peculiarities in requests (a/k/a demands).

Yes, Suzanne, you hit upon the snag -- not knowing when the "final" version
actually is. But you confirmed my suspicion that there's no automatic way to
do this.