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TOC for section B in section A in a document with 30 sections
- That site went down. Here's an alternate source:
https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/word-adding-a-toc-for-a-section/
CaroleSL There is rarely any need to have multiple documents. Before combining the documents, you need to insert a Next Page Section Break at the end of each document and then copy everything including that Section Break and paste it into the host document. When you do that the headers\footers in the individual documents will be preserved.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP I inserted sections between everything. In fact, there are 2 sections per document so I can number the TOC pages separately. My huge problem is that the TOC is for the full document, not per section, let alone I want the TOC of Unit 1 in section 1 of Unit 1, and its headings to come from section 2 of Unit 1, after which I insert a new section for TOC of Unit 2 referring to the 4th section, contents of Unit 2. I spent days combining the docs, and when I printed, all the TOCs that I manually adjusted to just ccover their ssections had error codes and I had to update the fields to the full doc's TOC - exactly what I'd done the work around for. I don't see any way but separate documents for separate TOCs - and it's a pain in the butt, I've merged, updated, fixed and kludged everything, now have to extract it again. Is there an MS solutionn or better software for this?
CaroleSL I am not sure that I understand your requirement. However, you may find something of use in http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/TOCTips.htm
If you upload the documents, we can have a look at the issue and advise how to combine them.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP it worked! Thanks so much!