How to create table of contents entries without a page number in Word 2003 and in Word 2002 (319821)

SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to create table of contents entries that contain no page number, without affecting the numbering of the rest of your table of contents.

This article assumes that you understand how to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word. For more information about how to create a table of contents, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: This article describes how to add table of content entries that contain no page numbers, similar to the following example. You may want to use this method to prevent multiple table of contents entries from appearing with the same page number.

   Baseball............................................................1
      Origins and Early History
      Development of Baseball Leagues
      Professional Baseball Government
   Current Major and Minor Leagues.....................................2
      American League..................................................2
      National League..................................................3
				

NOTE: By default in Microsoft Word, you hold CTRL and then click the table of contents entry to move to that page in the document. This action works the same way, regardless of whether or not the TOC entry has a page number.

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How to Create a TOC Entry with No Page Number

1. Create your Word document and table of contents the way that you typically do.
2. Put the insertion point at the beginning of the text that you want to appear in the table of contents without a page number, and then select the text.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
4. Put the insertion point at the end of the text that you selected and copied in steps 2 and 3.
5. On the Insert menu, click Field.
6. In the Field dialog box, select TC in the Field names box.
7. Put the insertion point in the Text entry box, under Field properties.
8. To insert your copied text into the Text entry box, press SHIFT+INSERT or press CTRL+V.
9. Under Field options, follow these steps:
   1. Select the Outline level check box.
   2. In the Outline level text box, type the indentation level that you want for the text in the table of contents. For example, if you want the text to appear as second-level text, type 2.
      
      NOTE: If you leave the Outline level text box blank, the text appears left-aligned in your table of contents.
   3. Select the Suppresses page number check box.
   4. Click OK to close the Field dialog box.
10. Select your existing table of contents.
11. On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and then click Index and Tables.
12. On the Table of Contents tab, click Options.
13. In the Table of Contents Options dialog box, select the Table entry fields check box.
14. Click OK to close the Table of Contents Options dialog box.
15. Click OK to close the Index and Tables dialog box.
16. To replace your existing table of contents, click OK in the following message:

    Do you want to replace the selected table of contents?

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How to Make Changes to a TOC Entry with No Page Number

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. On the View tab, select the All check box under Formatting marks.
3. Click OK to close the Options dialog box.
4. You now see a TC field, similar to the following example, next to the text that appears in your table of contents without a page number:

   Origins and Early History{ TC "Origins and Early History" \l 2 \n }

5. Select the TC field, including the opening { bracket and the closing } bracket.
6. On the Insert menu, click Field.
7. For information about how to use the Field dialog box for a table of contents entry that contains no page number, see steps 5 through 9 of the How to Create a TOC Entry with No Page Number section of this article.
8. On the View menu, click Options.
9. Clear the All check box, under Formatting marks.
10. Click OK to close the Options dialog box.
11. Select your existing table of contents.
12. Press F9 to update your table of contents.
13. If you receive the following message, select Update entire table, and then click OK.

    Word is updating the table of contents. Select one of the following options:

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