Trying to find and copy all headings at the same time

macropod · #1 08-21-2012, 03:59 AM

Try a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [A-Z0-9 ]@^13
Replace = ^&

and set the Replace Style to, say, "Heading 1"
You can then insert a Table of Contents into the document (References|Table of Contents) and, voila! - all your headings will appear there - with page numbers and an underlying field that, if you add/delete headings, can be updated to reflect the changes by nothing more complicated than a Print Preview.

WaltR · #2 08-21-2012, 07:25 AM

macropod you're a genius, that worked! My life just got a whole lot easier thanks to you.

Charles Kenyon · #3 08-21-2012, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macropod

Try a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [A-Z0-9 ]@^13
Replace = ^&
and set the Replace Style to, say, "Heading 1"
You can then insert a Table of Contents into the document (References|Table of Contents) and, voila! - all your headings will appear there - with page numbers and an underlying field that, if you add/delete headings, can be updated to reflect the changes by nothing more complicated than a Print Preview.

I would have thought this would pick up any paragraph that started with a capital letter. Thank you for sharing. I was definitely in over my head.

Walt, that table of contents can be set up to order, including having no page numbers if that is what you want. How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word

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