Hi.

I work with big manuscripts divided into loads of chapters. I have found that by using the built in system of formatting a Table of Contents by formatting both the title of a chapter aswell as an ingress they will both appear in the table of contents. With ingress i mean that I write a short synopsis of the content of the chapter.

Now, what I want to be able to do is to write directly into the ingress in the table of contents and thereby also changing the ingress in the chapter (or change the name of a chapter from the table of contents rather than having to go to the chapter itself)
This would help me a lot and spare me a lot of frustration going back and forth to the table of contents and the actual chapter some 700 pages away.

Is this possible to do? How?
Thanks!


Table of Contents

Chaptername 1
Ingress with information on what is in the chapter. Yada Yada Yada.

Chaptername 2
Ingress filled with a lot of information on this chapter. Yada.

Chaptername 3
Ingress which shows information on this one as well. Yada~.

I know of no way to do this with the automatic Table of Contents features.

The simplest way I can think of to make your changes is to

1. use Ctrl+Click to go to the Ingress you want to change,
2. make your change,
3. and then return to the TOC and update it.

Generating a Table of Contents - Complex Documents
How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word by Shauna Kelly
TOC Tips and Tricks

too bad.

Remember that you can use Ctrl+Click to go to a point in your book from the TOC and Alt + Left Arrow to return to the TOC.