Hi Macro & many thanks for your reply.

To clarify the bit you say you don't understand - I literally just typed the document from start to finish, no formatting. Then typed a contents page at the start with a list of the chapters. Then simply connected the corresponding chapters to their counterparts in the contents page using the Bookmarks/Hyperlinks method I describe. So a very manual process in an unformatted document (which is why I guess it didn't work.)

Macros are most definitely way over my head, as you can probably tell from the ham-fisted way I did my hyperlinks. So if you could dumb it down a bit I'd be grateful. R