[dba-Tech] A Question about Word

Try using the TOC
Table of Contents in Word
recent explantory article
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=165

More help here
Cindy Meister  http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/
Dave Rado  http://word.mvps.org/


artful at rogers.com wrote:

>I'm submitting a proposal for a book, and working from a sample
>proposal supplied by my literary agent. As intelligent documents go,
>this one ain't got any. 
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>Following is a block pasted in from my version of said sample:
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>Chapter 1: Management Studio
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>                        Navigation
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>                        Schemas
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>                        Templates
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>            Chapter 2: Integration
>Services
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>The headings do not correspond to Heading 1 etc.
>The chapter numbers are literals. As I work out the outline of the
>book, re-ordering the chapters, etc., I am constantly going back to renumber
>the 30 chapters to reflect their new position. There has to be a better
>way! I could redefine Heading 2 to reflect this formatting, but I don't
>want to do that because Heading 2 is used for its natural purpose
>elsewhere in the document. What I need is an auto-number style that
>begins with the word "Chapter" followed by the auto-number, followed by
>the title I enter, similar to the way that Table and Figure captions
>work. I have no idea how to achieve this. I guess that I should create
>a new Style, but that's about the extent of my knowledge of Word. Even
>though I use Word constantly, I have never bothered to learn the object
>model beyond its most trivial aspects. At least I know the goal: I want
>to be able to drag a given chapter and its kids to a new location in
>the list, and have all the chapters renumber themselves, same as
>Heading 2s would do.
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>Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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>TIA,
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>Arthur
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-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada