Yesterday, I wrote an article on how to make a master document in OpenOffice writer. Today I wanted to bring more OpenOffice goodness to the blog. Today I want to discuss how you would add a table of contents to your documents.
First thing you will need a document that has more than one page of text. The second thing you might want to consider it whether you will be using the heading X styles that are provided in Open Office Writer. The easiest way to generate a a table of contents is to use these styles to mark what things you would like to see in your Table.
Go through your documents and use heading styles starting with 1 to however deep you want to generate the TOC for. Then you need to place the insertion point for where you want the table to be generated. Now go into the Insert menu. Roll down to Indexes and tables. In the submenu choose indexes and tables one more time that will produce the indexes and tables dialog like the one below.
Make sure that the type has table of contents selected. In the evaluate up to level is set to the maximum heading level number you used and want to be in the table of contents. Make sure that the create from is set to outline, and then choose ok.
A table will be generated, but the table will not be directly editable. If you made changes to the document, then you need to regenerated the table. Right click on the table and choose update table/index. That will regenerated the table with the same setting as when you made the table.
Have you used the Table of Contents system in OpenOffice? If so, share your experiences with us.
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