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nycCTM - 30 Mar 2007 03:28 GMT

I have a document that I expect will end up being around 60-75 pages. It's a
cookbook divided into sections. I want a TOC for each section but can't
figure out how to do it. When I insert a TOC it goes through the entire
document and I want TOCs for each section.

There are real sections with headers, footers, etc. Any help would be
appreciated.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 30 Mar 2007 04:11 GMT

You can create a TOC for a portion of the document. See "A partial table of
contents" in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm. Find more
tips for TOCs at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/TOCTips.htm.

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> I have a document that I expect will end up being around 60-75 pages. It's a
> cookbook divided into sections. I want a TOC for each section but can't
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> There are real sections with headers, footers, etc. Any help would be
> appreciated.

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Jay Freedman - 30 Mar 2007 04:17 GMT

Insert a bookmark around each section. Then use a \b switch in the TOC
for that section, as explained in "A partial table of contents" at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm.

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>I have a document that I expect will end up being around 60-75 pages. It's a
>cookbook divided into sections. I want a TOC for each section but can't
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>There are real sections with headers, footers, etc. Any help would be
>appreciated.

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nycCTM - 31 Mar 2007 05:30 GMT

Thanks to both of you, but I must be doing something wrong. I found other
posts that said to use the \b after defining a bookmark but I can't seem to
get it to work. I get the error:

ERROR! NOT A VALID HEADING LEVEL RANGE.

Here is my code:

{TOC \B APPETIZERS \O "RECIPEHEADING,1"}

I also tried these and they don't work either as it pulls entries from the
entire document

{TOC \h \z \t \b"RecipeHeading,1" }

{TOC \h \z \t \b Appetizers "RecipeHeading,1" }

"Appetizers" is the bookmark and "RecipeHeading" is the name of the style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 31 Mar 2007 06:16 GMT

Well, the bookmark name must follow the \b switch and the style name the \t
switch. The \o switch is valid only for numbers of built-in headings. So
what should work is this:

{TOC \h \z \t "RecipeHeading,1" \b Appetizers }

or

{TOC \h \z \b Appetizers \t "RecipeHeading,1" }

For more on TOC switches, see the Help topic "Field codes: TOC (Table of
Contents) field" and/or the article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm.

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> Thanks to both of you, but I must be doing something wrong. I found other
> posts that said to use the \b after defining a bookmark but I can't seem to
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> "Appetizers" is the bookmark and "RecipeHeading" is the name of the style.

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nycCTM - 31 Mar 2007 17:12 GMT

The first option didn't work but the second did. Thank you so much!

> Well, the bookmark name must follow the \b switch and the style name the \t
> switch. The \o switch is valid only for numbers of built-in headings. So
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> > "Appetizers" is the bookmark and "RecipeHeading" is the name of the style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 31 Mar 2007 17:30 GMT

Glad I could help, and interesting that the order of the switches matters,
given that in many fields it doesn't. I certainly consider the latter field
more logical, though.

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> The first option didn't work but the second did. Thank you so much!
>
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> > > "Appetizers" is the bookmark and "RecipeHeading" is the name of the style.

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