TOC And my Boss

[dynamictiger]

Hi All



My boss is driving me nuts...not unusual I know.

Anyway, what he wants to do is create policy documents, all as seperate documents and then have me merge them into 1 document and add a TOC. So far nothing too hard. And I have some template somewhere that merges all the documents together automatically.

However he wants the TOC to look like

Heading 1 p1
Heading 2 p1
Heading 2 p2
Heading 2 p3

Heading1 p4

Where Heading 1 is a grouping for example OH & S, and heading 2 is the policy title.

So far nothing hard.

However he wants Heading 1 on each seperate document so when I collate them I put teh right policy in the right grouping according to his logic. And then to make life really interesting, if he decides he doesn't like the grouping assigned he wants to change heading 1 and have the document automatically move within the main document to the correct place and update the TOC automatically.

Listening to him I think this can be done in Word. I know I could do it in Access without breaking a sweat, but seems easier to construct a word macro to achieve what he wants rather than write something and teach him how to use it.

Anyone?

[Kimberly]

I'm not entirely sure I understand the goal, but I'll give it a shot... if you go to Outline View, you can click inside the desired heading 1 and click the Collapse button. Then click on the heading 1 (which will select all the paragraphs including headings that are childed below it), and use the Move up or Move down buttons to relocate the paragraphs.

I'm not sure if that is what you're after or not.

[macropod]

You can combine the various documents via INCLUDETEXT fields, or just their headings for a Table of Contents via RD fields. Neither of these precludes the source documents having their own Tables of Contents. Obviously, though, if you want to change the heading levels, that needs to be done in the source documents, though it is possible to do this from the destination document in the case of links maintained via INCLUDETEXT fields.