Table of contents headache

[Steve]

I'm working with a document in which I want all of the first-level headings, but only *some* of the second-level ones, included in the ToC. This is because only some of the level-2 headings are actual headings that introduce lower-level subparagraphs; the rest are just numbered paragraphs

I'm sure there's an obvious solution here, but I'm stumped. I've tried building the ToC based on the Heading 1 style, and then adding TC fields to only the Heading 2 headings that I actually want included. The problem is that I want the paragraph numbers for *both* levels to show up in the ToC, but the TC fields return only the text of the heading, not the paragraph number. (There doesn't seem to be a switch on either the ToC or TC fields that will return the paragraph number along with the text...correct?

I thought about having 2 different second-level heading styles--one for inclusion in the ToC, the other not--but it seems like I'd risk wreaking havoc on my numbering scheme

I'm almost ready to resign myself to building the ToC out of the Heading 1 & 2 styles, and manually removing the entries I don't want every time I update the table...hardly the most elegant solution

Any ideas? Many thanks

Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It sounds as if you need to rethink the organization of the document, which
seems to be mixing headings with non-headings in the same style.

I'm working with a document in which I want all of the first-level

headings, but only *some* of the second-level ones, included in the ToC.
This is because only some of the level-2 headings are actual headings that
introduce lower-level subparagraphs; the rest are just numbered paragraphs.

I'm sure there's an obvious solution here, but I'm stumped. I've tried

building the ToC based on the Heading 1 style, and then adding TC fields to
only the Heading 2 headings that I actually want included. The problem is
that I want the paragraph numbers for *both* levels to show up in the ToC,
but the TC fields return only the text of the heading, not the paragraph
number. (There doesn't seem to be a switch on either the ToC or TC fields
that will return the paragraph number along with the text...correct?)

I thought about having 2 different second-level heading styles--one for

inclusion in the ToC, the other not--but it seems like I'd risk wreaking
havoc on my numbering scheme.

I'm almost ready to resign myself to building the ToC out of the Heading 1

& 2 styles, and manually removing the entries I don't want every time I
update the table...hardly the most elegant solution.

 

[Steve]

OK...I see there isn't, in fact, an obvious workaround here. I'm going to take your advice and see if we can organize the document differently. Thanks for the reply.