Export Word Table of Contents into an excel using the custom headings (ToC) as headers of columns.

Question

I have a word document that I use to take notes for school. I use custom headings to build a table of contents. Which is really useful when studying inside the word document. However! I want to take that table of contents and "export"(?) it over to excel. Using the custom headers as headers of every column in excel. Is that possible?

Im thinking of it like a "reverse" mail merge maybe? Using the custom headings as the mail merge fields? Something like that.

Basically transfer my table of contents into an excel. Where the headers of the columns are the custom headings (in the styles pane) I used to build the ToC.

Answer 1

Since you're primarily using Word's outlining capabilities, you might have a look at using Outline View. In that view, it's easy to use the Show Level command to show only the level of headings that you want to sort. Choose Ctrl + A to select all, then use Home>Paragraph>Sort to sort the headings: