How do I set up a table of Contents for legal documents in Word 2.

[Rene]

I need to set up complex paragraph numbering through styles and then run a
table of Contents where each entry will not grab more than the first sentence
of rather long paragraphs.

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Rene

I'm hoping that the subject of your message was truncated, and that you're
actually using Word 2000 or Word 2002 or Word 2003.

See http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html for the
numbering and http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/RunInSidehead.htm for the
table of contents.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[macropod]

Hi Rene,

That's not how Word's TOC feature works. The TOC feature is meant to pull in
the whole of the referenced paras, which should merely be headings that
indicate what follows.

Cheers

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are style separators and hidden paragraph marks compatible with numbered
paragraphs? I thought I recalled that they suppressed the numbering, at
least in certain Word versions.

 

[Rene]

I'm not sure how style separators work. Weren't they supposed to work with
numbered oparagraphs? I thought they kept the paragraph as a single unit, at
least in the body of the document and in print, while at the same time
allowing for a TOC to grab only that first sentence or few words of a longer
paragraph. That was why people used hidden paragraph marks in the past. I
thought style separators were devised to do away with these other tricks, as
a needed concession to the legal industry.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If they work, then more power to them! I just thought I remembered that
there were still some problems.

I'm not sure how style separators work. Weren't they supposed to work with
numbered oparagraphs? I thought they kept the paragraph as a single unit, at
least in the body of the document and in print, while at the same time
allowing for a TOC to grab only that first sentence or few words of a longer
paragraph. That was why people used hidden paragraph marks in the past. I
thought style separators were devised to do away with these other tricks, as
a needed concession to the legal industry.