Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with chapter numbering and TOC.

On 14/11/2019 07:58, Dave Barton wrote:
> I have set up chapter numbering as per the help page
> https://tinyurl.com/vsq77lu and created a "New Chapter" page style.
>
> After inserting a manual page break with the "New Chapter" page style I
> set the first paragraph style to "Heading 1" and the correct chapter
> name/number is displayed both on the page and in Navigator.
>
> However, when I insert a TOC into the document no chapters appear in the
> index.
>
> Any thoughts or pointers would be welcome.
>
> Thanks Dave
Hi Dave,

Looking at your original document, it is clear that in the chapters you have created, all that appears 
in the heading of each chapter is the 'Before' and 'After' elements that you have specified in the 
dialog box of Tools > Chapter Numbering. As Regina states in her reply, you have not typed anything 
of your own invention.

Directly after Chapter 1, in the H1 heading above your text, type for example 'The Start'. Then 
right click in the TOC and select 'Update Index' and watch 'The Start' appear directly after 
Chapter 1 and before the long line of dots leading to the page number (3).

The instructions you repeated from the help pages do work. Your later specially created test doc 
has a problem between the TOC and the first line - don't know what it is but when I created a 
similar file, leaving lots of space between the TOC and the body, it works perfectly.

But you must, as Regina says, add some sort of title to your chapter heading, even a blank space.

hth
Philip

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