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Subject:Tables of Contents in Word/Macintosh From:Steve Jong/Lightbridge <Steve_Jong/Lightbridge*LIGHTBRIDGE -at- NOTES -dot- CREDTECH -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:32:10 EDT
I recently posted a request for help with generating a Table of Contents using
Microsoft Word on a Macintosh.
Thanks to those of you who sent me mail (and a little sleuthing on our own), we
discovered the magic secret: When you enter the RD keyword to tell Word what
files to look in, you have to enclose the filename in quotation marks (").
Needless to say, this is not documented, nor is there an example using
Macintosh filenames.
Furthermore, if you reference a file not in the same folder (directory) as the
TOC, the Macintosh directory syntax uses not backslashes but colons, viz:
{RD "My Hard Disk:Projects:XYZ:Chapter 01"}
-- Steve
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Steven Jong, Documentation Specialist ("Typo? What tpyo?")
Lightbridge, Inc, 281 Winter St., Waltham, MA 02154 USA
<jong -at- lightbridge -dot- com>, 617.672.4902 [voice], 617.890.2681 [FAX]
