I am trying to create a Table of Contents but in reverse from the normal word procedure and this one must really be a table containing 3 columns a/b/c
a - reference number
b - unimportant
c - title

These would be created first and then cross referenced to in the text... in the text they should appear as "c /a/" without the qutation marks
I'm honestly confused as to how to do this and I'm not really certain they envisaged this option. All of my google searches have resulted in ways to create a TOC from captioned sections.

I suppose if I could somehow caption the table cells with the title and place the caption in the reference number cell then I could just cross reference theese in the document.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide