Table of contents & index

paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I have created a document with headings, and a table of contents, but no alphabetical index. I want to create an alphabetical index later.

However:

1. The document now has Table of Contents, but it appears to have nothing in it.
2. Instead, there is an index at the end, showing some entries that I evidently left in the document after some earlier editing.

Where am I going wrong ?

Arineckaig · OOo Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 332

I suggest you have a look at Chapter 12 of the Writer Guide to be found at and downloaded from either:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/9/96/0212WG33-TOCsIndexesBiblios.pdf
or:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/8/84/0212WG33-TOCsIndexesBiblios.odt
Please come back if the Guide does not solve the problem.
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paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

That is what I have been using, and I cannot find anything in it to account for what is happening.

Arineckaig · OOo Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 332

floris_v · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:12 am Post subject:

Most important is to open Tools - Outline numbering and to assign the outline levels to the heading styles that you use. If you link level 1 to Heading 1 etc. and then update your TOC, it should list all headings correctly.
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paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I am afraid that I am still not getting results, but thank you.

By the way, the link that you gave me, Arineckalg, takes me to a surprising destination -- some sort of advertising for British Telecom, I think.

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paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I have made a good deal of progress, and could I ask you just to consider this.

1. I have: (a) outline-numbered the document, and (b) divided the document into chapters, each chapter being preceded with a title in the form e.g. of the expression 'Chapter x -- Creating opportunities.'

2. I have designated each such expression an Entry in the Table of Contents.

3. When I up-date the TOC, it now shows those entries correctly.

4. However, what I cannot seem to do is to arrange matters so that the TOC also shows the relevant outline-number, probably because I cannot work out what to put in the structure-line for the TOC.

Can you kindly advise ?

floris_v · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:38 am Post subject:

What do you mean with outline number?
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paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

I hoped that the TOC might show the relevant level-numbering, for example:

1. Chapter 1 -- Creating opportunities.
1.1 Opportunities at school.
1.2 Opportunities at work.

,,, and so on. As matters stand, my TOC shows that, but without the 1, 1.1, 1.2, &c.

floris_v · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:30 pm Post subject:

Toy around with the options in Tools - Outline Numbering. It's really quite easy if you do it instead of reading technical guides about it. Copy some of your text to a blank document to avoid data loss and go for it - try anything you can think of in changing the settings and make a note of how that affects the looks of your file.
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paieye · General User Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 8

Thank you, I shall try that, and come back to you.