{"id":3168,"date":"2016-03-20T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/home2\/bm8qcmjy\/public_html\/blog\/?page_id=3168"},"modified":"2016-03-20T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:42:31","slug":"updating-the-toc-in-a-wordprocessingml-document-using-an-autoopen-macro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/blog\/updating-the-toc-in-a-wordprocessingml-document-using-an-autoopen-macro\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating the TOC in a WordprocessingML Document using an AutoOpen Macro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Return to the
WordprocessingML Screen-Cast
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I had thought that there were only going to be four screen-casts in this series on adding \/ updating tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. However, I can see that there are now going to be at least six.<\/p>\n

In the screen-cast that I present in this post, I show how you can add a TOC using the Open XML SDK, and then modify the normal.dotx, adding a macro, so that whenever you open a document that contains a TOC, Word repaginates the document and updates the TOC. This is an approach that would be useful if, for instance, you have a department of sales engineers who prepare proposals that need a TOC inserted at the beginning of the proposal. You could write a small program that would install the AutoOpen macro, and distribute this program to all members of the department. Alternatively, you could post instructions on an internal web site showing how to add the macro. It is important to note that nothing will go wrong if one of the salespeople does not have the macro. If the macro is not there, then it simply means that the user needs to click on the table of contents and update it by clicking on the content control tab at the top of the TOC.<\/p>\n