Word - How to manage page breaks in case of table of contents on several pages

Question

Hello everyone !

In a long Word document the table of contents is generated over several pages, and certain parts are then cut off in the middle of the chapter titles.

=> example with 2 levels of titles in the table of contents :

Page 1 : TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2 ----- TM1-TM2-TM2

Page 2 : TM2 ----- TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2

 

My goal would be for page breaks to be automatically made without cutting a TM1-TM2 block (same for TM3-TM4...).

=> for the same example this would give :

Page 1: TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2

Page 2: TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2 ----- TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2

 

I tried several manipulations including the "solidarity paragraph" option but I cannot completely resolve the problem :

• by applying "solidarity paragraph" to the TM1 style nothing changes
• by applying "solidary paragraph" to the TM2 style, this level is no longer divided into 2 different pages ... but the corresponding TM1 remains alone on the previous page

=> for the same example this would give :

Page 1: TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2 ----- TM1

Page 2: TM2-TM2-TM2 ----- TM1-TM2-TM2-TM2

 

Do you know how to do this ?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

I don't know what you mean by a "solidarity paragraph".

The Table of Contents is an automatically generated field. You can add page breaks within the results from that field to force a break where you want it. Those breaks will disappear when the TOC is updated.

The alternative it to manually create a table of contents.

Answer 2

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

Sorry for the expression "solidarity paragraphs", it was translated from French!

I was referring to the option to prevent 2 paragraphs from being separated by a page break, but I was unable to apply it correctly to the level 1 in the table of contents.

Your solution remains manual, is it possible to manage this automatically so that page breaks are only made for titles 1 of the table of contents?