How do I make a table of contents that covers multiple doc..

External Since: Oct 06, 2009 Posts: 1

I'm writing a large project (thesis). For simplicity and memory purposes I
am organizing each chapter as its own word document. Can I make
automatically updating tables, TOC, table of figures, etc. that update from
multiple word documents?
Thanks.

External Since: Jul 02, 2008 Posts: 746

Hi bend,

There are two ways of doing this:
1. use RD fields in conjunction with a TOC field; or
2. create a TOC in each of the sub-documents, bookmark those TOCs, then use INCLUDETEXT fields pointing to those bookmarks,
in the document in which you want the combined TOC to appear.

See Word's help file for more details.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

"bend" <bend.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B9857110-09C1-4BD3-B44E-490DA17771F6@microsoft.com...
> I'm writing a large project (thesis). For simplicity and memory purposes I
> am organizing each chapter as its own word document. Can I make
> automatically updating tables, TOC, table of figures, etc. that update from
> multiple word documents?
> Thanks.