Extending Table of Contents beyond a single page.

Thank you, VikingOS10.  Your reply was helpful and intriguing.  I like learning solutions created to get around software incapabilities.  And, although the fast-approaching deadline for the submission of my document prevents me from replacing my own “get-around” scheme at this point in the game, I’m eager to apply your solution to the rewrite that will be due.

My current solution is to insert a table of contents on each page of the section, and, for each, slightly changing the names of the paragraph styles.  As long as I don’t have to edit the body text after its completion, I am safe.  Any editing thereafter, however, could bring on a whole new set of headaches with respect to the several tables of contents.

Your solution, on the other hand, sounds foolproof, and I’m anxious to try it.  Thanks again.

Thank you, Yellowbox. Your reply is helpful as evidence that the table of contents can break across page boundaries. What I need, however, is a step by step explanation as to how you caused it to happen. I'm still quite the novice.

Thanks again.

Hello again, VikingOSX and Yellowbox.

Again, thank you for your replies. As a result of assorted tinkering in my attempt to get the hang of creating sections and section breaks, my lengthy table of contents was finally able to flow from page to page as I typed the body text. The ticketing had constituted the greater part of my effort to section off my table of contents from the body text.

I noticed that when the breakthrough occurred, the section break icon (an invisible) was place at the top of the page directly following the page on which the table of contents was being created. That icon previously had been placed at the bottom of the same page as that on which the table of contents was building.

As I intimated, I had performed a lot of tinkering before the page-to-page flow began and, cannot, therefore, say with certainty that the placement of the section icon had anything to do with enabling the table of contents to break across page boundaries, especially considering the fact that I have not since experimented regarding the placement of the section break icon. I look forward to tinkering in that regard later.

Hello again, VikingOSX and Yellowbox.

Again, thank you for your replies. As a result of assorted tinkering in my attempt to get the hang of creating sections and section breaks, my lengthy table of contents was finally able to flow from page to page as I typed the body text. The ticketing had constituted the greater part of my effort to section off my table of contents from the body text.

I noticed that when the breakthrough occurred, the section break icon (an invisible) was place at the top of the page directly following the page on which the table of contents was being created. That icon previously had been placed at the bottom of the same page as that on which the table of contents was building.

As I intimated, I had performed a lot of tinkering before the page-to-page flow began and, cannot, therefore, say with certainty that the placement of the section icon had anything to do with enabling the table of contents to break across page boundaries, especially considering the fact that I have not since experimented regarding the placement of the section break icon. I look forward to tinkering in that regard later.