Custom Table of Contents - separate title & page?

[Nicole Knapp]

I have a specific TOC layout to use for an SOP. It looks like a spreadsheet,
with the Title and Page being in separate cells.

If I mark each section title so that it reads like this: { TC "Section" \f A
\1 "1" }

How do I get the TOC reference so that it only has the title in one cell and
in the next cell, has the page number?

I have read the guide to delete pages from the reference.

Is there another way to get the pages referenced?

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm thinking this would be an excellent occasion for use of bar tabs, to
simulate a table around an ordinary TOC.

 

[Nicole Knapp]

Ok - so that is something I'm not familiar with "bar tabs"

Sounds like I need a drink. *grin*

I'll look into it, thanks!

 

[Nicole Knapp]

This is what the layout has to look like:

(I don't know if IMG code will work)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Bar tabs can be very useful, and I think you could absolutely do this with
bar tabs if it weren't for the added information that's not in the TOC. You
won't find documentation of bar tabs in Word's Help (or much of anywhere
else); I think they're a survival from DOS, and their original purpose
actually was to create tables. You can learn what they do more quickly by
trying them than by my trying to describe it. It used to be possible to set
one only from the Tabs dialog, but Word 2002 and 2003 have a Bar Tab setting
on the ruler. Briefly, when you set a bar tab, Word inserts a vertical line
at that point. It's not really a tab stop, in that no tab character is
required to use it; the line is just there. It will extend to the height of
the paragraph so that if you have several paragraphs in a row with the same
bar tab, you'll get a vertical line. Combined with borders between
paragraphs (originally I suppose underlines were used), you get the
appearance of a table.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That would be a bit more of a challenge because it includes additional
information that the TOC does not provide. I suspect you're going to have to
generate the TOC automatically insofar as possible, then use that as a basis
for creating this format. You may be able to get a head start by unlinking
the TOC and converting the text to a table. The trick will be ensuring that
pagination does not change. If your front matter is numbered separately,
this will be less of a concern, and if you modify the TOC styles so that the
spacing matches what you'll eventually have in the table, then the page
breaks should be approximately the same (at least the number of pages
required for the TOC should be the same).

This is what the layout has to look like:

(I don't know if IMG code will work)

I have a specific TOC layout to use for an SOP. It looks like a spreadsheet,
with the Title and Page being in separate cells.

If I mark each section title so that it reads like this: { TC "Section" \f A
\1 "1" }

How do I get the TOC reference so that it only has the title in one cell and
in the next cell, has the page number?

I have read the guide to delete pages from the reference.

Is there another way to get the pages referenced?

Thanks