Table of Contents

[dirkdavis]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

When trying to establish a table of contents for my dissertation, the Help directed me towards Insert / Document Elements / Table of Contents. Unfortunately, Table of Contents is not bold, or not a highlightable option. Any suggestions?

 

[Bras]

Make sure the elements gallery is visible - go to view - elements gallery
make sure it is check marked. Also try to change the view to print layout.
It may be your document; try a new blank and see if the option becomes
available.

Bras

 

[CyberTaz]

When trying to establish a table of contents for my dissertation, the Help directed me towards Insert / Document Elements / Table of Contents. Unfortunately, Table of Contents is not bold, or not a highlightable option. Any suggestions?

The most likely reason is that the document is a 97-2004 file & you are working in Compatibility Mode - take a look at the title bar. Use Save As to save a copy in Word Document (.docx) format and you should be able to use the feture in that copy.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
MVP Office:Mac

 

[Bras]

In compatibility mode it is grayed out in the menu, but you still can insert
a table of
contents in compatibility mode when you go to the elements gallery and go to
document elements and click on table of contents there.
Bras

 

[CyberTaz]

That's true, or one could also use Insert> Index & Tables as has been the
method in previous versions as far back as I can remember.

I had the impression that the question was posed more from the standpoint of
"why" the menu item was dimmed. Perhaps I'm being presumptuous, but I would
tend to think that anyone writing a *dissertation* would have already found
the Elements Gallery button and the TOC options within or the Insert> Table
command in the standard menu structure - their quest for Footnote, Endnotes,
Cross-References & Indices would have led them right to it

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Perhaps I'm being presumptuous, but I would
tend to think that anyone writing a *dissertation* would have already found
the Elements Gallery button and the TOC options within or the Insert> Table
command in the standard menu structure - their quest for Footnote, Endnotes,
Cross-References & Indices would have led them right to it

Oh, don't judge the Word-skills of dissertation writers by me! I almost
made that crack about the MSc thesis yesterday, but you have no idea how
many academics are totally bewildered by Word. I know for a fact
that last summer at least four of my professorial friends were
astonished to learn Word would even do a TOC.

Daiya

PS. Useful links for dissertations in Word:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm