How to generate Table Of Contents using OpenXML SDK 2.0?
Using the SDK I'm building Word documents that contain reports. These documents need to have TOC. Does anybody have a complete solution that I can follow in order to understand how to do this?
(I've read everything on http://openxmldeveloper.org/)
Answer
Have a look at Fourth and Final Screen-Cast in Series on Adding/Updating the TOC in OpenXML WordprocessingML Documents by Eric White.
Hope that helps!
UPDATE:
According FAQ from MSDN Forums I see that this feature is not supported:
8) How to generate TOC (table of contents) in Word document?
Open XML SDK 2.0 does not have this feature supported. But you can generate a small TOC through Word app, and reflect the TOC parts with Document Reflector component in Open XML SDK Productivity Tool to see how to generate a TOC programmatically. For more detailed information, please refer to:
UPDATE 2
Based on our comments below I could propose to use this scenario:
- You manually create an empty DOCX file and insert TOC inside it.
- Then you save this file and open it in OpenXML SDK 2.0 Tool, which provides you with the C# code to generate such empty file with TOC placeholder inside.
- Then you programmatically flush all the data you need to this DOCX file and save it.
- In addition you will need provide the mechanism that will auto update TOC once the data are flushed (or once the document is opened). There are a few options to do that - see screen-casts 3-5 fromthe link to Eric White post I provided above. Especially, I think youshould pay your attention to 5th one - "Shows how to use an AutoOpen macro to update the TOC whenever any document that contains a TOC is opened".
All of that look a bit tricky, but I hope that helps.