Dpeters911: Recommend away! This is not a fundamental flaw, but is a design decision that works for many Word users. To the extent Word adds 'features' like you are requesting, it becomes more of a Christmas Tree with something for everyone hanging on it and less of a useful program. For specific tasks, I'm sure that InDesign is superior; so, for that matter are WordPad, NotePad, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.

Word has the ability to show any text within the body of the document in a Table of Contents. It also has the ability to show any text in the body of the document in a header automatically. That is enough for me. Charles Kenyon Madison, WI.

Oct 14, 2018  So, I am editing a simple word doc in microsoft word 2016 for mac Home, and when I make a custom heading, and place it in my text, the automatic table of contents generator does not recognize it. Excel for mac free download. However, when I use the built-in headings, like Heading 1, and Heading 2, the ones with the light blue color to them, those do get recognized by the. May 1, 2016 - In Word, tables of contents rely on your use of styles to format headings. If you already used the Heading 1, Heading 2, and other heading.

I have the same problem, but actually you can set a diferent header for each page, i already did it, but my problem is that the table of contents does not pick up the text of the headers. I need that cuz i am triying to make a template. To add a new header for each page you need a lot of section breaks.

It will create a very complex document. That said, you can insert a TC field on each page and then create a table of contents based on TC fields.

You can insert a TC field via the Mark Table of Contents Entry dialog box, which you can display by pressing Alt+Shift+O. For more, see. Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP. My sincere apologies for not making myself clear, it is because I need the table of contents TO PICK UP THE PAGE HEADERS for the following reasons. My sincere apologies for not making myself clear, it is because I need the table of contents TO PICK UP THE PAGE HEADERS for the following reasons.

As Stefan pointed out, this is not something that can be done. Technically, even though a header may only appear on one page, it is not 'on a page' but rather in a different layer.

Headers and footers are intended to be present in multiple pages. The Table of Contents field will not pick up anything in the header/footer layer. You could use TC fields to put information you want to show up in your Table of Contents on a particular page but not printing on that page. These have to be in the body rather than the header/footer. Look at the link Stefan gave you. Here are two more: • • Are you incorporating screenshots in your table of contents or the description/caption? Charles Kenyon Madison, WI.