I haven't helped yet! But I'll play around a bit now that I know what your
settings are. By the way, I'm sure you've already tried to figure out what's
different about Chapter 2 -- punctuation, for instance, or any hidden
characters the others have/don't have? I'm a newbie myself, but also
interested in TOCs for some of my own projects. If we can't come up with
anything here, there's a Writer forum on the main site that might have some
more experienced folks to help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Dudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Table of Contents
I am indeed. When I first open the insert index/table dialog, I get five
tabs:
Index/Table | Entries | Styles | Columns | Background
Under Index/Table, that's where I set the title of the TOC, the type,
and select the "create from".
I've tried three ways with the create from:
Outline - this is the default
Additional Styles - this was on the suggestion of the FAQ on the site.
Outline AND additional styles - this was a last-ditch effort to make
something work.
All three provide the same results: only Chapter 2 sets up.
I'm not really sure what to do with the Entries tab, but I've tried
just about every setting under there, to no avail.
Styles has two columns - Levels and Paragraph styles.
Under levels, it shows "Title" and Levels 1 - 10. Under Paragraph
Styles, it has all the others, including Rage Heading 1 (the name of
my custom style). I've trying selecting that, but the arrow between
the two columns is greyed out. I assume if it were not, I could add it
to the Levels list.
Columns and Background are both formatting, and I don't need any of that.
To create the Chapter Heading, I went under Tools => Outline and Numbering
For Level one, I changed the Paragraph Style to Rage Heading 1, Number
to Number, and under Separator, I put "Chapter" in the before box.
This makes the Chapter Numbers appear as "Chapter 1" and number
automatically. Under the Position tab, it's set to Level 1
This was how the FAQ indicated it should be done.
I've checked all my headings, undone them, restarted, and always, I
get the same result: a TOC with only the title and Chapter 2 listed.
The chapter headings do appear in the scroll bar at the side when
paging down, and also in the footer I created with a field (added from
Insert => Fields => Other => Chapter: Chapter Name
Thanks for your help, Barbara.
On 2/12/07, Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Heather, are you still having problems with the TOC? If so, it might help
if
you let us know what you have in the various tabs of the "Insert
Index/Table" dialog -- there's a lot going on in there. Not sure exactly
what you did for your chapter headings, but if it involved an additional
style, the default settings on the Index/Table tab would ignore the
style.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Dudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 7:14 PM
Subject: [users] Table of Contents
> I'm currently using Open Office 2.1, running Windows XP.
>
> I've been attempting to insert a Table of Contents into my document,
> using chapter headings. I've got custom chapter headings defined,
> which number themselves automatically, and appear in the scroll bar
> when paging down.
>
> I follow the instructions to create a table of contents, and even
> though there are currently 8 chapters, all formatted with the same
> style, only one of them appears in the table of contents upon
> generation. Chapter 2, weirdly enough. I've tried updating them, but
> to no avail. I've repeated this three times, but with the same results
> each time.
>
> The chapters appear successfully, as I mentioned before, in the scroll
> bar, as well as in the footer I've created to display document title,
> page number, and chapter name/number.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide me. I've followed the
> directions in the help file to create these custom chapter headers.
>
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> Heather
> AIM: drgnchlde
> ~Please, no more of the stupid today. Wait until tomorrow.~
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