Getting rid of a TOC entry

It's not clear what the exact problem is. If the TOC is embedded inside the range that you want to copy, you could copy in two parts.

Sorry. I wasn't sure the best way to describe this. My macro copies the page break, the title and the first 10-12 rows of a table and pastes them where ever the cursor is when you run the macro. This is because some of our tables bleed over as many as ten pages and we like each page to have its own title. The problem is when you update the TOC, you end up with this:

Table of Contents
Question 1: What books do you own?                       1
Question 1: What books do you own? (continued)    2
Question 1: What books do you own? (continued)    3
Question 1: What books do you own? (continued)    4
Question 1: What books do you own? (continued)    5
Question 2: How many total books?                         6

Instead I want this:

Table of Contents
Question 1: What books do you own?                       1
Question 2: How many total books?                         6

Make sense?

I tried both editing SELECTION.TEXT and copying it to another string variable but when I do I lose the formatting. Is there a way around this?

Hi Experts!

No one responded to the comment above so maybe this one will work better. I wrote a cumbersome bit of code that seems to work. The only problem is I get this message WORD HAS REACHED THE END OF THE DOCUMENT. DO YOU WANT TO SEARCH FROM THE BEGINNING for every table. So if I have 500 tables I either have to hit it 500 times OR end the macro without running some code at the end. How do I get rid of this message?

For x = 1 To NumberTables

    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
   
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "(Continued)"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindAsk
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With

   If Selection.Find.Execute Then
        ' Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll !THIS LINE DOESN'T WORK!

        Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
        Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine
        Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
        Selection.MoveUp Unit:=wdLine, Count:=2, Extend:=wdExtend
       
        For z = 1 To Len(Selection.Text) - 3
            If Asc(Mid$(Selection.Text, z, 1)) = 12 Then
                Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=z, Extend:=wdExtend
                Exit For
            End If
        Next z
       
        Selection.Copy
       
        TheTextBefore = Selection.Text
        TheTextAfter = GetField(TheTextBefore, 2, "")
        Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        Selection.InsertAfter TheTextAfter
        Selection.Font.Size = 12
        Selection.Font.Bold = True
    End If
    Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1

Next x

Thanks!

Ed Matsuoka

If your TOC is based on heading paragraphs and you copy these, then you will create new entries in an updated TOC. I don't recommend editing the TOC after it has been created.

Perhaps you should create copies of the heading level style(s) involved, but with the Outline level set to body text. Use the original style for the first occurrence and new style for where you don't want the entries to appear in the TOC

The problem is the proprietary software we use generates that text. So what my macro does is unhide the TOC information, select it with the rest of the information I want to copy, find the {} brackets that frame it, delete those brackets and anything between them if the title contains (CONTINUED) and then pastes it back in. As I said, inelegant, but it seems to be working except for getting that pesky WORD HAS REACHED THE END OF THE DOCUMENT... which I have told people that they have to, for now, CTRL-BREAK out of, which doesn't allow the rest of the macro (which turns the hidden text off) to run. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Can you post a non-confidential example, so we an understand better, please?

Sure! Here is the macro (and attached function) as well as a before and after Word doc.
congress-before-macro.doc
congress-after-macro.doc
DeleteTOC.bas

I KNEW you guys would know an elegant answer! I don't use Heading styles so I have to admit I don't know how this works but it works great. Thanks.

Fast, elegant code.