I tried taking several individual tables in Word (each table is a separate doc) and copying them one by one into a single Word document and Word kept changing the names of and second and subsequent tables I added so that's no good.



Now I've converted the Word tables to individual Excel "tables". They copy OK without changing the names so that's good. However, I would like for the TOC to update with the name of each Excel entry. There is a header line and the font is correct but Word does not recognize it as a header 1, 2, or 3. Is there a way to get Word to recognize these individual tables or do I have to put a header on each page before the Excel entry?

Thanks.

Bob

Can you provide more information on what changes were made to the "names of and second and subsequent tables" Where the names displayed by the results of fields in the document?

In the original scenario I had individual Word documents that contained only one table each. I was trying to make use of my predecessor's work. The top row of each table was a heading. When I copied each table and pasted it into another Word document that I wanted to contain all the tables the heading row changed on the 2nd and subsequent tables to match the first one I copied in. I tried unchecking the header box on the table and that made no difference. For instance, if the first line of the first table said "Accounts Receivable" and the first line of the second table said "Accounts Payable" the first line of the second table changed to "Accounts Receivable". Every table I tried to add after changed the first line to "Accounts Receivable". And, the cover page title changed, too. I don't know if it had anything to do with using the Header1 designation or just what was going on. I posted a question about this a couple of months ago and found there wasn't much help for this problem.

Now, since I've converted the Word tables to Excel, which I think is a lot easier than Word tables to manage, I can copy and paste them into the Word document with no issues. I would like to have the Table Of Contents automatically update with the name of each table in the top row......Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, etc.....but I can't figure out how to do it unless I put a title on the page ahead of the Excel table that contains each table name using Header1, Header2, etc. I can do this easily enough but it's not what I want to do. Excel table may be the wrong term but it helps me keep it straight when I'm in the Word document.

Any help will be appreciated.

Bob

Can you provide a couple of samples of the individual Word documents so we can see exactly what was in the heading of each table and determine why it might have been changing.

I can but it'll be a couple of days to change the information so company data doesn't show.

I stumbled on the solution to my original issue. In each individual Word table I need to highlight the first line, right click, and select Remove Content Control on the popup menu. The first line apparently defaults to Title and that is what cause all the titles in the consolidated document to change to match. So, I can do what I originally wanted to do.

Thanks to all who read my posts and tried to help.

Bob