There is a large document that I am working on that is going to have lots of interconnectivity. (e.g., the individual entries on a table in Chapter 1 connect to expanded descriptions of each entry in Chapter 4)
As it's a large document (570 pages and counting), with 16 Chapters I want this to be as quick a process as possible. CTRL+K opens the Insert Hyperlink box (example image below)



From there, if you start typing the first couple of letters it jumps to entries within the document. As far as I can tell, the level or type of Heading format (e.g., Heading 2 versus 7) used does not seem to interfere with this.

The problem I'm having is that roughly half of the alphabet does not work. The keys obviously do (as I'm using the same keyboard to type this as I use when working on the document). The letters that work are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, N, and O. This causes problems and slows things considerably.

I have closed and opened the document, as well as having rebooted the computer. I'm not really sure why its not working and I don't get any error messages, hitting 'S' or 'M' just produces no results (and I most definitely have entries starting with those letters)

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.



(Oh, and my laptop has Win8 installed and as far as I'm aware I'm using the most up-to-date version of Word)

Is there a reason you can't just bookmark the range where all this linked content resides, then insert a Table of contents pointing to the bookmarked range?

PS: Please update your profile. Somehow I doubt you're using the 15 years old Office 2000.

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Paul Edstein
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Whoops, sorry. Yes, you're right I'm not using an ancient version of Office.

Can you explain your idea a little bit more?

The document I'm creating uses the tables for random item generation for a roleplaying game. They are all in the first chapter of the book/document. The items do not always (often) have self-explanatory names, so each category has its own later chapter with complete descriptions.

As the tables are to be used for random generation, I am linking each item in the tables to their later place in the document for easier reference.

My problem does not prevent me from this task, it is just making it more tedious than it needs to/should be. (As might be evidenced by how many chapters/categories there are)

A document can contain multiple Tables of Contents. Each Tables of Contents can refer to a bookmarked range and/or a specified set of Styles. The default Tables of Contents that Word creates comprises entries from the Styles Heading 1 - Heading 3, for the whole document.

So, for your situation, you might have a 'main' Table of Contents that picks up just the Chapter headings (presumably in Heading 1) for the whole document.

In turn, each Chapter would have a bookmark applied to its entire range. Then, immediately below each Chapter heading in the body of the document, you could have another Table of Contents that refers to, say, the Heading 2 & Heading 3 Styles for just the bookmarked range. Within the chapter, the Heading 2 & Heading 3 Styles would be used for the main and sub headings, respectively.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]