Customised Table of Contents

**Smally** · 07-21-2014, 08:45 AM

Hello

I'm currently trying to get a customised table of contents, but I can't seem to get it working.

Right now I have 50+ word documents that I'm slowly putting into 1 document. Each of these docs are same layout, they contain a few tables. On the first table is: (example)

Assessment No: C01	For: Something written here
Review date	01/07/15

I'm trying to get the table of content to display "C01 - Something written here ..............................[PageNo]"
Also I'd like the footer to display "C01 - Page 1 of 3" (I can get the 'Page ? of ?' working though)

**macropod** · 07-22-2014, 01:03 AM

For content to appear in a Table of Contents, it all has to exist in a single paragraph with no extraneous content. Therefore, it can't be split across table cells (separate paragraphs) or contain 'Assessment No:' or 'For:' (extraneous content).

Getting the 'C01' into the footer is quite easy, though: Simply apply a unique Style name to the 'C01' in the body, then use a STYLEREF field in the footer to refer to that Style.

**Smally** · 07-23-2014, 05:26 AM

Thanks

Had a little trouble with the footer, but what I did was split that top row into 4 columns, so Assessment No: and For: have there own cell, as do C01 and Something written here. (then edited cells margins and borders to make it appear to be one cell)

The C01 and Something written here use the same Style, but only C01 shows in the footer. Am I correct in guessing that it just uses the first instance of that style for the field?

Now how do I go about adding a TOC? So I can't use seperate cells or paragraphs, but C01 now has its own cell. Am I able to just use that for the TOC then manually type 'Something written here' next to it?

**macropod** · 07-23-2014, 05:38 AM

STYLEREF fields can use either the first or last instance of the named Style on a page.

As for the TOC, I've already said it has to reference content in a single paragraph. That rules out adding anything to the TOC itself - doing so is futile because whatever you add will be deleted anytime the TOC gets updated.

**Smally** · 07-23-2014, 05:56 AM

Ok, so I'm guessing it's impossible to have a contents page, that is a table with 3 columns for Assessment No / For / Page No . I was orginally thinking you could link things up using code or whatever Ctrl+F9 seems to do.

And I've just realised that page 1 of my footer shows "C01 - Page 1 of 3", but page 2 shows "Something written here - Page 2 of 3".
Is there a way to only select the first instance. Or should I just give 'Something written here' it's own style?