unwanted page breaks in a long TOC

[vmaione]

I have a 150 page Word document with a multi-page detailed TOC. (The TOC has
3 levels and is comprised of 15 chapters. Each chapter has anywhere from 5
to 20 lines of text/entries beneath it.) How do I make sure that page breaks
don't come in the middle of a chapter's list of entries? (In other words, I
want the chapter title and all of it's entries on the same page.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can format TOC 1 as "Keep with next," but obviously that won't work for
TOC 2. Unless you want to start each chapter listing on a new page (in which
case you could format TOC 1 as "Page break before" (which would make it
problematic to have a title on the TOC), there's not really much you can do
as long as the TOC remains a field. When editing is complete and you know
the TOC will not change further, you can lock or unlink it and add breaks as
needed.

 

[vmaione]

Thanks. I had thought of this, too, but I don't want a 15 page TOC and some
of the chapters are short (meaning some of the TOC chapter entries are only a
few lines, while others are a half page long)). One thing that has helped
so far is creating a separate section for the TOC with a different 1st page,
then manipulating the size of the header. (I wish there were a way, though,
to manually make the pages be where I want them, since I periodically update
these documents and corresponding TOCs.)
Valerie

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I fully sympathize, as I've experienced exactly these issues. Ultimately,
for dynamic documents, I settle for whatever I can get; for books to be
published, I fine tune after editing is complete.