Re: TOC in Word 2007 for Multiple Files

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There is a macro that I was using that I got on the Internet. Here is the
link:

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

There used to be a download link for the macro when did not work the last
time I tried it. The macro text is included on the page (link above) so you
can just copy and paste it into a new macro in Word.

It works quite well, even in Word 2007. It also makes use of RD fields. Do
*not* put any quote marks in the RD field string--it doesn't work with them.
You have to create several documents, but it's not hard. It is important to
use a local disk to store and update the files--I was not able to get it to
work on a LAN drive. Keep all the documents in their own directory, without
other files in there.

The macro updates the page numbers in each document so they are numbered
consequtively. It looks like one big document, even though each section or
chapter is a separate Word document. Pretty cool.

Good luck!
PT
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Allan Ackerson <alackerson -at- msn -dot- com> wrote:

>
> Used to be you could bookmark any part of a document and generate a TOC for
> each bookmarked part.  Haven't researched to see if that is still a function
> in newer versions of Word, but you might look into it.
>
> Regards!
> Al
>
>
> > From: ltc -dot- writer -at- comcast -dot- net
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> > Subject: TOC in Word 2007 for Multiple Files
> > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:57:01 -0500
> >
> > I have been working on some older manuals for some clients that were
> written
> > in Word. These manuals are 200 to 400+ pages long when put together as
> PDFs.
> > Combining all the files for a manual into one file in Word just causes
> too
> > many problems and I know that in the earlier versions of Word, Master
> > Documents did not work. I need to generate a Table of Contents at the
> front
> > of a manual for every file in the manual. How do you do that?
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim Lewis
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