Example:

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction……………..p.No.

Within the text:



Chapter 1

Introduction

My first step to reach this is not to include "Chapter 1" in the heading and define it as normal text.
Then I need to omit the "1" in front of "Introduction" in the heading. Writing "1" twice would look funny.
When I leave out the "1" in front of "Introduction" in the heading it will be left out in the table of contents too. I don't want that. I've been trying for hours.How can I fix this.

What would be an elegant way to reach such a formatting style?

There are many tutorial for formatting table of contents online but I couldn’t find one addressing this specific subject.

I hope there is a better way to reach this than doing it manually.

I would be happy to receive a link to a tutorial including this matter.

Thank you for your support!

Here is a link to a book where such a formatting style was used. You can see the formatting difference by comparing the beginning of the introduction chapter with the way the introduction is presented in the table of contents in the preview of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Additive-Manu.../dp/3319551272

Look here: http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/TOCTips.htm

Thank you JimP for the link.

It helped me find a workable but so far not very elegant solution.

I inserted a textfield with the complete heading in front of every level 1 heading which I formatted as normal text:

{TC "1 Introduction"}Introduction

This way I only have the heading "Introduction" in the text and "1 Introduction" in the table of content.

This solved the problem to automatically get the right page number for the "(1) Introduction" heading in the table of content. That is an ok solution.

What still worries me a bit is:

1.) The tab-space between heading number and the heading in the table of content needs to be adjusted manually (I can no longer use the TOC-style to format this).

2.) The numbering of the Chapter Headings (Chapter 1,2,3...) as well as the numbering within the text field ({TC "1,2,3... Heading"} needs to be done manually.

The simplest way would be to let the number in the heading disappear instead of adding something. I don't know whether such a possibility exists.

Otherwise I am content with the above solution.
If anyone has some links to make the solution more elegant I will be happy to read them.

Thanks for the support.

I would try to add an automatic number to the TOC 1 style itself. That might be an elegant but indirect way of getting numbers to appear before each TOC 1 entry.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Another method would be to add a SEQ field to your TC field number, I think. I have never tried it, but these fields are Word's original automatic numbering and are pretty much bullet-proof.