Table of Contents - Cross Reference issue

[Guest]

I have noted previous comments from Suzanne and Charles
but would like some further assistance in idiot form
please.

I have a table which has contents. 1 is "Index", 2
is "Introduction" and so on. What I would like to do is to
have the reader click on the word i.e. Index or
Introduction or whatever and that then automatically show
(take the reader to ) that section within the documnet.

Cross-reference seems to get me there on some occasions
but most of the actual headings with text (body of what is
being said) are not shown. Should those headings have been
created in a particular manner or am I not using the
option in Cross Reference correcly?

Any assistance is appreciated


John

 

[Charles Kenyon]

An automatically generated Table of Contents in Word 2000 and later will
automatically include hyperlinks. In Word 97 the page numbers, only, are
hyperlinks. They don't have the blue color or underlining, but they are
hyperlinks.

What you need to be doing is using the built in heading styles to format
your headings. Then you don't need to mess around with cross-references for
a Table of Contents. There are step-by-step instructions at
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/complex_document.htm.

 

[John]

Thanks Charles...I am trying to follow your instructions
from the website and now have those little markers that
appear on each line, how do I get rid of these (now
appearing to affect every Word doc).

How do I get rid of these so that they are not permanent,
whilst I try to work out what to do nextr.

Many thanks


John

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Little markers like "¶"?

Which side of the line?
Each line or each paragraph?
Do they print?

 

[Guest]

Hi Charles,

Yes like those you have shown.

On each line.

Each each new document and any already previously
saved/held on the PC.. which is most frustrating.

They do not print

Many thanks

John

Ps Am finding the web guide a little hard to follow...must
be my ignorance (after "Practice: Generate a Table of
Contents By Manually Marking Entries" point 3...I got
stuck)

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Re the little gray ¶s
Nonprinting characters can be turned off and on by clicking ¶ in the
Standard toolbar. If that doesn't work, check the View settings in the
Tools | Options menu. See here for more info, and an explanation of how
nonprinting characters can be extremely useful:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

An alternate set of TOC instructions:

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html

DM

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Dayo has answered your primary question. However, if they are on each line
this means you are not using Word correctly. Those are paragraph marks and
should be at the end of each paragraph. You should be letting Word wrap your
lines by itself and setting where that will happen using margins and
paragraph formatting for indents. Pressing the Enter key at the end of each
line, as if using a typewriter, makes your work much more difficult to edit.


Hi Charles,

Yes like those you have shown.

On each line.

Each each new document and any already previously
saved/held on the PC.. which is most frustrating.

They do not print

Many thanks

John

Ps Am finding the web guide a little hard to follow...must
be my ignorance (after "Practice: Generate a Table of
Contents By Manually Marking Entries" point 3...I got
stuck)

 

[John]

Thanks again Charles...point noted.

Do you by any chance know the answer to my other hard
drive query? Any further assistance again gratefully
received.

John