Writer Guide

Creating a table of contents from an outline
The third section of the Index/Table page is used to determine what
Writer should use to create the TOC. The available choices (not
mutually exclusive) are:
• Outline
• Additional styles
• Index marks
By default Writer uses the outline levels; that is, paragraphs formatted
with the paragraph styles associated with outline levels in Tools >
Outline Numbering. In the default document, Heading 1 has outline
level 1, Heading 2 outline level 2 and so on up to Heading 10.
You can change the paragraph styles included in the outline as
described in “Defining a hierarchy of headings” in Chapter 6 of this
guide. You can include other paragraph styles in the TOC by assigning
an outline level to those styles. To do this, modify the paragraph style
definition: go to the Outline & Numbering page for the style, and select
the required outline level. Click OK to save the change.
Figure 325: Specifying an outline level on the Outline &
Numbering page for a paragraph style
Creating from additional styles
By selecting the Additional Styles option on the Index/Table page, you
can add more paragraph styles to the TOC. This can be useful when
you want to include in the TOC an annex (appendix). If the Outline
option is also selected, the additional styles will be included in the
table of contents together with the ones defined in the outline
numbering. However, headings included in the TOC using this feature
are not hyperlinked to the headings in the document body as are
headings assigned to outline levels.
New in
3.1
As described above, you can now assign outline levels to
paragraph styles. Styles with outline levels assigned are
hyperlinked in the TOC.
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