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Table of Contents spanning multiple documents in Word 2007

by multiplex7777 Feb 24, 2008 10:42AM PST

Hi everyone,

I have a large report that spans several chapters, each in separate Word documents (written in Word 2007 but saved as ".doc").

I want to create a separate file "TOC.doc" that contains a dynamic, updatable table of contents (TOC) for all the chapters.

I've seen this article (http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=14Cool by Jonathan West but I don't seem to get it to work following his instructions. I did the Ctrl-F9 but when I start typing 'RD' inside the curly brackets, the whole bracket disappears. Perhaps this doesn't work for Word 2007 (the article was written in 2003).

Does WOrd 2007 provide a more user-friendly way to create a Table of Contents spanning multiple documents?

Thanks in advance for the advice.

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Re: multiple documents
by Kees Bakker Feb 24, 2008 5:22PM PST
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Re: multiple documents
by multiplex7777 Feb 24, 2008 5:25PM PST

Thanks Kees! I'll go try it.

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We had the same problem.
by smerek Apr 23, 2010 1:10PM PDT

Our problem was with 2007, we failed to type out the full extension ".docx" rather than ".doc" in the RD Field. Hope that helps.

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