Re: Table of Contents updating with F9

From: Clive Huggan (REMOVETHISoffice_at_ANDTHISstrategists.com.au)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:39:58 +1000

Hello Emily,

Further to Beth and Dayo's suggestions -- if it's available in Word X (I
recall it is, but I'm in my final weeks on Word 2001 before moving to Word
2004) -- you can use Word's alternative default keystrokes for updating
fields, Shift-Option-Command-u. However, it's clumsy to key ‹ so I think
I'll be using another keystroke, either for Exposé or Word (I see that
Control-Option-Command-f, which is easy to key, is not taken by Word. "f" is
for "fields".)

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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in article BCA94FFE.3B5AE%bethrosengard@earthlink.net, Beth Rosengard at
bethrosengard@earthlink.net wrote on 20/4/04 2:44 AM:

> Hi Emily,
>
> The other way to deal with the problem (as I understand it, not being in OS
> X yet) is to assign Expose to another key and reassign F9 to update fields
> (or assign any other key combination to update fields).
> --
> Beth Rosengard
> Mac MVP

> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

> On 4/19/04 8:30 AM, in article 4083F08F.5080003@yahoo.com, "Emily Force"
> <emilyforce@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> SW wrote:
>> I created a table of contents using built-in heading styles. Word
>> Help says the way to update the page numbers on the table of contents
>> is to place the cursor at the start of the table of contents and press
>> F9. I use OS X 10.3.2, so when I press F9, Exposé activates and shows
>> all the windows that are open. Is there another way to update a table
>> of contents, or way to assign Exposé to another function key?
>
> I was having the same problem yesterday. The only solution I found (but
> one which does seem to work) is to go to Edit > Links..., which shows
> you a list of all the links in your doc, including the ones in the TOC;
> leave the first link highlighted; scroll down to the bottom of the list;
> while holding down "shift," click the final link; and click "Update Now".
>
> Hope that works for you.
> Emily Force

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