Publisher should allow automatic table of contents creation

[bxb7668]

In Publisher 2003, in order to have a table of contents in a newsletter, you
must manually create the TOC and manually determine the page numbers. It
would make life a lot easier if Publisher, like Word, could use styles to
automatically create a table of contents.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher as advertised is a page layout application... While you can do more than
page layout in Publisher, Word is still the best program for documents that need TOC.
Most newsletters aren't all that long, a manual TOC would be easy to create.

 

[bxb7668]

My wife publishes our church newsletter every two weeks. It is generally
12 to 16 pages long. She is the one that wants this feature and reports
that it is a pain in the rear to manually create the TOC, especially
since she is using booklet format and it is usually easier to print it
out to make sure what is on what page before creating the TOC. Besides
which, when someone comes in with a last minute "it must be in the
newsletter" addition that shifts the content around, it is annoying to
have to also correct the page numbers. And before you suggest that she
just not include the TOC, it is a feature that the readers want.

Publisher can automatically insert page numbers. It seems that it would
be fairly easy to programmatically generate a TOC that has automatic
page numbering using styles.

 

[Ed Bennett]

While in a state of withdrawal waiting for components to arrive to repair
his dead laptop, Ed notices a message from "bxb7668"

Publisher can automatically insert page numbers. It seems that it would be
fairly easy to programmatically generate a TOC that has automatic page
numbering using styles.

Would you like to code it? ;o)

 

[JoAnn Paules]

And when you do, please make sure you pass a free copy of that to me for my
EGA newsletters.

 

[Mike Koewler]

JoAnn,

I have an inexpensive DTP program that will do that. It can even handle
other things, such as footnotes and endnotes!

Mike

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Nah. I really like Publisher. Doing a TOC is not a big deal to me. But thank
you for the offer.

 

[bxb7668]

If MS would like to hire me, I'd happily do the coding.

Brian

 

[Ed Bennett]

While STILL in a state of withdrawal waiting for components to arrive to
repair his dead laptop, Ed notices a message from "bxb7668"

If MS would like to hire me, I'd happily do the coding.

You mean you can't code it as an add-in?