Table of Contents within Sections

T

Tammy

I am writing a long document with approximately 18
sections in the document.

I would like to have a main table of contents, pointing to
the page that each section begins at the beginning of my
document, as well as a table of contents within each
section that only covers that section.

My main table of contents should have only one heading for
each section where my section table of contents will have
two headings.

I would like this to be as intelligent as possible so that
as I do my numerous updates, there is very little manual
work to update the contents.

Any suggestions... I have tried EVERYTHING.
 
T

Tammy

-----Original Message-----
I am writing a long document with approximately 18
sections in the document.

I would like to have a main table of contents, pointing to
the page that each section begins at the beginning of my
document, as well as a table of contents within each
section that only covers that section.

My main table of contents should have only one heading for
each section where my section table of contents will have
two headings.

I would like this to be as intelligent as possible so that
as I do my numerous updates, there is very little manual
work to update the contents.

Any suggestions... I have tried EVERYTHING.
.

By the way, I am using Word 97
 
J

Jay Freedman

Hi, Tammy,

In the TOC for each section, use the \b switch to limit the scope to a
bookmark you apply to that section, as described in the "A partial table of
contents" part of http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm.

In the TOC for the whole document, use the \o switch to limit the heading
levels it includes. You can use the Options button in the Insert > Table of
Contents dialog, or just edit the field code directly as the article
describes.
 
E

Eileen

If you create new heading names for each section, you can
then pull only that heading into an automatically
generated table of contents.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

This would be an impossibly bizarre way of approaching the problem. Jay's
answer is the correct one.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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