# Possible to create this kind of summary in Word?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-create-this-kind-of-summary-in-word/451647>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-create-this-kind-of-summary-in-word/451647 "2008-06-03T16:51:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-create-this-kind-of-summary-in-word/451647/1 "2008-06-03T16:51:13Z")

</div>

I have a Word document that will be a template for an audit report. One section will be repeated for each area audited. It has several subsections; one subsection gives required corrective action. I would like to tag these corrective action sections by using a Word style in such away as to be able to provide a list of the corrective actions in a summary at the end of the document, similar to how Word can extract section headings to build a table of contents. I know how to do this with VBA but prefer to use built-in features if possible.

I am using Word 2003. Thanks for any solutions, suggestions, or SWAGS!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-create-this-kind-of-summary-in-word/451647/2 "2008-06-04T05:08:35Z")

</div>

OK, for anyone looking, I figured out a rather convoluted way to do this.

Select the paragraph and then Format, Paragraph. Select Heading Level 9 (something larger than what you would ordinarily put in a table of contents). Then make this paragraph a style.

Insert a table of contents, include your new style as level 9, and modify the style of level 9 to be how you want it to look. All of this is done in the Tables dialog.

Finally right-click on the table, toggle field code, and change the levels (probably 1-3 by default) to 9-9 to show only your level 9 style (if it’s not already like that).

If anyone else needs to do something like this (God help you) let me know and I can give more detail.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-create-this-kind-of-summary-in-word/451647/3 "2008-06-04T13:07:55Z")

</div>

I haven’t really thought this through, but shouldn’t you be able to do something with an index or table of authorities?