Finding and Updating a Table of Contents in VBA

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BBM - 21 Sep 2006 18:29 GMT

How does one
1) Reference the Table of Contents of a Word Document through VBA

and

2) Force it to update itself (perform F9 function). It needs to do this
after the document has loaded, but before it is displayed to the user.

Thanks.

BBM

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Jay Freedman - 21 Sep 2006 20:11 GMT

Bearing in mind that any document may have zero, one, two, or more tables of
contents, the following code will handle any of those situations:

Dim TOC As TableOfContents

For Each TOC In ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents
TOC.Update
Next

If your macro assigns the document in question to a variable of type
Document, then replace "ActiveDocument" with the name of that variable.

If your document also contains tables of authorities and/or tables of
figures created with fields of those types, then you'll need separate loops
to handle the members of the TablesOfAuthorities and TablesOfFigures
collections.

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