Folks: I wish to use a Table of Contents (TOC) and to have it show in a nested fashion (I can to do this).

However, I wish some of the TOC references to refer to pages out of order. For example:

1 Fruits............................................ ....p15

1.1 Fruits with peel..............................p16

1.1.1 Apples......................................p17

1.1.2 Bananas...................................p104

1.1.3 Oranges...................................p18

1.2 Fruits without peel..........................p19

1.2.1 Berries.....................................p20

etc....



How do I force the TOC to link to a spot later in my document (ie: page 104 for Bananas) but put the listing (of Bananas) in the order I wish?





I will need to update the TOC automatically, so manual movement etc is not desired.



Thank you in advance

If you don't want to reorganise the TOC after updating then you will need to not use a TOC to do this.

You will need to build a series of paragraphs with Cross-Reference fields instead.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks Guessed.

What options are there if I DO want to be able to update it / move things around after creating?
Is there another option?

What if I add a TC Field?
That will allow me to NOT show some of the headings in the body of the document (ie: bananas)....that would be good, as all the text related to Bananas will be at the end of the document.

Now....how do I link my hidden TC field to the latter part of the document?

Can I use a REFERENCE field within the TC Field?

ie: If I referred to the text at page 104.

Would that show in the TOC as I've shown below?

The TC field will be reflected in the TOC as being on the page in which it appears.
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Thank you for all your help...I'll try to stick with this forum.

I've been able to get success with this:

{TC "Entry Name TAB { PAGEREF New1 \h}" \f c \l 4 \n}

Where "New1" is a Bookmark placed where the information is at the end of my document.

The TAB does work on Level 1 of my TOC...but sadly, does not work on other levels (ie, my example has "\l 4" showing above).

I've looked, and my TOC formatting is correct...that is, each level has a dot leader before the tab, and the tabs are formatted for the right side.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the results to show as follows (getting the dot leader in and the page # over on the far right):

Entry Name...............................104

Instead of

Entry Name104

Thanks!

It sounds like there could be a Jason tab creeping in to your TOC to prevent the tab pushing the number over (or the tab may be stripped by the TOC field). I note there is a \d switch for TOC fields which 'defines the separator between sequence and page numbers'. Perhaps that would be a clue to specify the separator.

Can you post a sample document we can experiment on?

I'm thinking perhaps of a different approach. If you bookmark the various ranges in your document, you could then put a series of TOC fields in which draw from those smaller bookmarked ranges. eg
{TOC \o "1-3" \b rng1}
{TOC \o "1-3" \b rng3}
{TOC \o "1-3" \b rng2}

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Are you sure there's a tab set up for the right margin?

I'd try highlighting the entire TOC area, go to Paragraph, then the Tabs section, clear all tabs and then manually resetting a 6.5" right tab with a lead. Then also go into the TOC1 and TOC2 Styles, and make sure the tab settings on there don't conflict? Also, this happens to me more in other people's footers than TOC, but check that there's not a weird hanging indent turned on in your paragraph settings?