Automatic Table of Contents Question

[Jen M]

Anyone know of a way to set up an automatic Table of Contents when the style
for the Section Headers is outside of the main text flow?
We have the Section Headers in a separate text box to the left of each new
section, and it seems like Word is not seeing them...
Thoughts?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Convert the text boxes to frames, and Word will see them for TOC
purposes. You do this on the Text Box tab of the Format Text Box
dialog box: just press the Convert to frame button. You can even
include frame formatting with your heading style, which would make it
very easy to apply "framed" paragraphs.

 

[Jen M]

Thanks, I didn't know about that! The other problem, which I had forgotten
about, is that those same Section Headers are also in the Header/Footer
section, which the TOC also doesn't seem to see...any workaround you know of
for that?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The TOC cannot pick up information from a header/footer; by definition,
headers and footers appear on every page and consequently don't have a fixed
page number.