Thanks for responding.

Yes, word does all that but it's a very manual effort even using styles.
What the program I used did was provide a menu which listed items one could
create i.e. TOC, Chapter, Title page, etc. Once you got all the chapters
done you ran a macro that put all chapters in order, automatically went
through the document and created the TOC in a pre-exiting template (there
were additional templates added to the main word template (normal.dot), all
with the correct headers and footers that named each chapter, made sure to
start on odd page, etc.

After performing that step you ran a program to automatically create a
concordance file for an index based on styles - it was a program that went
through the entire document. Then you'd run the last macro to put everything
together. It was truly a thing of beauty and I miss it.

I know this custom word solution contained components such as auto text
entries (pre-populated), additional templates on top of the normal.dot, and
many, many macros. It initially took the company 16 months to develop the
in-house product.

Does that give you a better idea?