The main part of David's document consists of a series of numbered paragraphs. He wonders how he can get a table of contents using paragraph numbers instead of page numbers.
There are two primary ways that a TOC can be created in Word—using styles or using TC field codes. If you use the method that relies on styles, all you need to do is make sure that the paragraphs utilize a style that is automatically included in the TOC. Follow these general steps:
Figure 1. The Table of Contents Options dialog box.
Your TOC should now include the special headings, with the number intact. Further, there is no page number beside each TOC entry.
Now, all this being said, you may not really want to include the numbered paragraphs themselves in the TOC. Instead, you may have a document where each paragraph is numbered with the exception of your headings, and you want the heading—when it appears in the TOC—to include the number of the first paragraph after the heading, instead of a page number.
If this is your need, then there really is no easy way to accomplish the task in Word. The closest you can come is to set up a series of TC fields, but have those fields be attached to the first paragraph after the heading. You can then, in the TC field, manually type the heading name and the number for the paragraph. When you generate the TOC based on the TC fields, then you'll see the paragraph numbers appear. Of course, since you added the numbers manually, any change in the paragraph numbers will require you to go back and manually change the TC fields to include the changed numbers.
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2019-10-17 04:34:47
Thorkild Maaetoft
Hello, my name is Thorkild and I am currently making a Word 365 version of the authors manuscript for his new book. Since the book is more than 400 pages and I am requested to create a index of all people names in the book (more than 600), many references to page number is above 100. When I group page numbers as an inertval, and the page number are above 100, Word put this interval in the index as f.ex.205-14 (meaning page 205 to 214). Is it possible to change this, so Word put the interval as 204-214 in the index instead ?
Thank you in advance
best regards
Thorkild Maaetoft
Holbæk
Denmark
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