{"id":187,"date":"2014-01-24T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:39:12","slug":"toc-at-the-beginning-of-a-document-or-at-the-beginning-of-each-sectionchapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/2014\/01\/24\/toc-at-the-beginning-of-a-document-or-at-the-beginning-of-each-sectionchapter\/","title":{"rendered":"TOC: At the beginning of a document or at the beginning of each section\/chapter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Question posed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/2632674\/2632674-5831865474979241988\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody asked me why we continued placing the TOC, List of Figures, and List of Tables at the beginning of a document and not having one these at the beginning of each section\/chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I released technical manuals using section-based TOCs and other lists. However, that was because Word 97 in my PC (Win 98) could not work with large documents. Once I had a powerful enough PC\/Word combination, I never did it again.<\/p>\n<p>I mostly update the TOC and the other lists doing Ctrl-A + F9, which brings up the &#8220;Update XXX&#8221; dialog box for each table. Since I use appendixes, this methods also generates dialog boxes for them as well. I realize that using TOCs and lists at the beginning of each section would make the updating process longer, as more dialog boxes would pop-up.<\/p>\n<p>However, I now ask myself whether it would be advantageous to do such thing, and why. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>My advice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the document as it is easy to find. A sub TOC at the start or each chapter could be a bit more informative.<\/p>\n<p>Word is very bad for formatting and tables, but it seems &#8220;everyone&#8221; besides the graphic design industry uses it or something similarly bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Question posed on LinkedIn. &#8220;Somebody asked me why we continued placing the TOC, List of Figures, and List of Tables at the beginning of a document and not having one these at the beginning of each section\/chapter. Several years ago I released technical manuals using section-based TOCs and other lists. However, that was because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-provided","tag-documentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyeatman.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}