Whilst that will work provided everything remains in the current folder, you're liable to find it'll break when the files are moved to a different folder, especially if different Word versions become involved. To make this workable across all folders & Word versions, using your first example:
1. insert /../ thus:


{ INCLUDETEXT "/../Introduction.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }
2. Press Ctrl-F9 before the first /, to create a pair of field braces, thus:
{ INCLUDETEXT "{ }/../Introduction.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }
3. Fill in between the field braces, thus:
{ INCLUDETEXT "{FILENAME /p}/../Introduction.docx" \* MERGEFORMAT }

The same approach can be used for HYPERLINK fields, RD fields and INCLUDEPICTURE fields, though you need to at least temporarily switch to the .doc format to be able to access INCLUDEPICTURE field codes.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks so much for your help so far.

I now need to create just a separate index, which, of course, the RD field should help with.

So I tried it with the following RD statements, but when I run the TOC, it says it can't find the files. They're in the same directory as the file I'm in.

{ RD "Introduction.docx" }
{ RD "RequestTimeOff.docx" }
{ RD "PayrollPolicies.docx" }

I notice that RD has a /f switch, so I tried all of the following combinations, but they don't work, either:

{ RD /f "Introduction.docx" }
{ RD "Introduction.docx" /f }
{ RD "/f Introduction.docx" }

This shouldn't be this difficult