table of contents format

[TJ]

I have a document for which I am creating a TOC. Many of the pages in the
document follow a similar pattern:

General Area: xxxxxxxxxx
Topic Area: yyyyyyyyyy

The terms General Area and Topic Area appear on pages and new General Areas
and Topic Areas are discussed on each page.

My current TOC contains the following:

General Area: xxxxxxxxxx.................#
Topic Area: yyyyyyyyyy.................#

I do not want to display the terms General Area and Topic Area in my TOC. I
only want to see what the General Area and Topic Area are. I would prefer my
TOC to look like this:

xxxxxxxxx............#
yyyyyyyyy............#

What do I have to do to create a TOC that will meet my needs?

Thanks.

 

[Anne Troy]

Apply a different style to the terms "General Area" and "Topic Area"...that
is, if you are using styles to create the TOC.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[TJ]

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I could not make your suggestion work.
The TOC would not capture only the text that exists after General Area and
Topic Area. The TOC still picks up those terms.

 

[Anne Troy]

You will have to have a paragraph return after each "general area" and
"topic area". And those two items will have to be a style that is not
included in the TOC. I have seen people create a new style called, for
instance, Heading1a, where Heading1a is NOT included in the TOC.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm. In your case,
you'll want to use it the other way round. Or you could use TC fields
instead.