Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Completing the Table of Contents

When you first open the RTF output file in Microsoft Word, it looks as though ODS has failed you because it displays a front page with the heading "Table of Contents" but no actual table of contents. The reason for this is that ODS does not determine pagination, but instead hands this task off to the word processor. ODS does not build a table of contents because it does not know the page numbers to insert into the table.

You must direct your word processing software to complete the table of contents. To do this after opening the RTF file, click the Show/Hide paragraph marker (¶) to turn on formatting markers if they are not already displayed. Next, position your cursor at the edge of the section break following ...