Table Of Contents & Mail Merge

[Robin Hourican]

I have created a template for a report that creates a new document with
various fields populated at various points in the doucment e.g. Client,
Report Name, Date etc. In the report, I have setup a TOC and this works fine
in the template. However, when I run the merge to New Document, the TOC
appears but as text. Therefore, when the document is updated the TOC is not.


Can anyone advise how to keep the TOC properties after the merge?

Thanks in advance

Robin

 

[Peter Jamieson]

If you put the ToC field in another document, then use an INCLUDETEXT field
to include it, the result will look roughly the same as before, but the
INCLUDETEXT field should survive the merge and the file it references is
unchanged. SO you can select the field, press F9 to update it, and you
should see a full ToC. It may not work in all cases if, for example, the
information it needs to build the ToC is removed by the merge, but if, e.g.,
your ToC is built from paragraphs with styles named in the ToC you should be
OK.