Table of Contents Help - new user A_S_42 12/4/2008 8:44:09 PM Hi- I have never used Word's TOC feature before. Mine is a simple one with Heading 1 applied to all the things I want in there - when I go to insert the TOC, I get what to me looks like gobbledygook (code?) and not the actual text. Yet if I try to copy and paste it into this message to show you, it copies the correct text (my screen shows {TOC\O "1-3"\H\Z\U} ) What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I was reading all over these forums and haven't figured it out yet! Also - if I wanted to have two different pieces of text per page on the SAME line in the TOC, can that be done? For example, if my POLICY NAME and POLICY NUMBER are in different places on the page, but on my TOC, I want it to show: XYZ POLICY #1234.............1 Is that possible? THANKS MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!

Re: Table of Contents Help - new user "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/4/2008 9:17:50 PM To answer the first question, you have field codes displayed. Press Alt+F9, which is the shortcut for going to the Options dialog and checking/unchecking the "Show field codes" option. For the second one, there's no simple way to do it. You'd have to put the complete item somewhere on the page and assign it the proper heading style; set the font color to white if you didn't want it to show there. Apply another style to the "real" text so it appears the same as Heading 1 but isn't actually in Heading 1, so the TOC won't pick it up. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. A_S_42 wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi- > I have never used Word's TOC feature before. Mine is a simple one with > Heading 1 applied to all the things I want in there - when I go to > insert the TOC, I get what to me looks like gobbledygook (code?) and > not the actual text. Yet if I try to copy and paste it into this > message to show you, it copies the correct text (my screen shows > {TOC\O "1-3"\H\Z\U} ) > What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I was reading all over these > forums and haven't figured it out yet! > > Also - if I wanted to have two different pieces of text per page on > the SAME line in the TOC, can that be done? > For example, if my POLICY NAME and POLICY NUMBER are in different > places on the page, but on my TOC, I want it to show: > XYZ POLICY #1234.............1 > > Is that possible? > > THANKS MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!

Re: Table of Contents Help - new user "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> 12/4/2008 10:55:45 PM You are viewing Fieldcodes and not results (the TOC is a field). You can toggle it off using Shift+F9 or go into Word Options and clear the check box to view fieldcodes. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "A_S_42" <AS42[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:18FCCE92-78FD-4972-B415-FF8AAA1F72EF[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi- > I have never used Word's TOC feature before. Mine is a simple one with > Heading 1 applied to all the things I want in there - when I go to insert > the > TOC, I get what to me looks like gobbledygook (code?) and not the actual > text. Yet if I try to copy and paste it into this message to show you, it > copies the correct text (my screen shows {TOC\O "1-3"\H\Z\U} ) > What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I was reading all over these > forums and haven't figured it out yet! > > Also - if I wanted to have two different pieces of text per page on the > SAME > line in the TOC, can that be done? > For example, if my POLICY NAME and POLICY NUMBER are in different places > on > the page, but on my TOC, I want it to show: > XYZ POLICY #1234.............1 > > Is that possible? > > THANKS MUCH IN ADVANCE!!! > >

Re: Table of Contents Help - new user "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 12/5/2008 4:24:09 AM [Quoted Text] > For the second one, there's no simple way to do it. But this might be reason enough to use TC fields instead. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> wrote in message news:ezHHFXlVJHA.1456[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > To answer the first question, you have field codes displayed. Press > Alt+F9, which is the shortcut for going to the Options dialog and > checking/unchecking the "Show field codes" option. > > For the second one, there's no simple way to do it. You'd have to put the > complete item somewhere on the page and assign it the proper heading > style; set the font color to white if you didn't want it to show there. > Apply another style to the "real" text so it appears the same as Heading 1 > but isn't actually in Heading 1, so the TOC won't pick it up. > > -- > Regards, > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup > so all may benefit. > > A_S_42 wrote: >> Hi- >> I have never used Word's TOC feature before. Mine is a simple one with >> Heading 1 applied to all the things I want in there - when I go to >> insert the TOC, I get what to me looks like gobbledygook (code?) and >> not the actual text. Yet if I try to copy and paste it into this >> message to show you, it copies the correct text (my screen shows >> {TOC\O "1-3"\H\Z\U} ) >> What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I was reading all over these >> forums and haven't figured it out yet! >> >> Also - if I wanted to have two different pieces of text per page on >> the SAME line in the TOC, can that be done? >> For example, if my POLICY NAME and POLICY NUMBER are in different >> places on the page, but on my TOC, I want it to show: >> XYZ POLICY #1234.............1 >> >> Is that possible? >> >> THANKS MUCH IN ADVANCE!!! > > >

Re: Table of Contents Help - new user Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/6/2008 1:21:14 AM True, but you'd still have to combine the two items manually into one TC field, as a substitute for fiddling with heading styles and white font color. On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:24:09 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> wrote: [Quoted Text] >> For the second one, there's no simple way to do it. > >But this might be reason enough to use TC fields instead. > >-- >Suzanne S. Barnhill >Microsoft MVP (Word) >Words into Type >Fairhope, Alabama USA > >"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> wrote in message >news:ezHHFXlVJHA.1456[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> To answer the first question, you have field codes displayed. Press >> Alt+F9, which is the shortcut for going to the Options dialog and >> checking/unchecking the "Show field codes" option. >> >> For the second one, there's no simple way to do it. You'd have to put the >> complete item somewhere on the page and assign it the proper heading >> style; set the font color to white if you didn't want it to show there. >> Apply another style to the "real" text so it appears the same as Heading 1 >> but isn't actually in Heading 1, so the TOC won't pick it up. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Jay Freedman >> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org >> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup >> so all may benefit. >> >> A_S_42 wrote: >>> Hi- >>> I have never used Word's TOC feature before. Mine is a simple one with >>> Heading 1 applied to all the things I want in there - when I go to >>> insert the TOC, I get what to me looks like gobbledygook (code?) and >>> not the actual text. Yet if I try to copy and paste it into this >>> message to show you, it copies the correct text (my screen shows >>> {TOC\O "1-3"\H\Z\U} ) >>> What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. I was reading all over these >>> forums and haven't figured it out yet! >>> >>> Also - if I wanted to have two different pieces of text per page on >>> the SAME line in the TOC, can that be done? >>> For example, if my POLICY NAME and POLICY NUMBER are in different >>> places on the page, but on my TOC, I want it to show: >>> XYZ POLICY #1234.............1 >>> >>> Is that possible? >>> >>> THANKS MUCH IN ADVANCE!!! >> >> >> > >