excluding levels from the document TOC

[shmuel]

My document has 6 levels of headings, and each of them is included in the Table of Contents. So far, so good: in the Navigator, it's nice to see all levels and be able to collapse and expand them as needed.

Now in the printed TOC (i.e., the one I'll insert at the beginning of the document), I'd like to be able to exclude certain levels of headings shown, e.g. levels 4 to 6, so that only levels 1 to 3 will be shown. At the same time, however, I'd like to keep the Navigator TOC complete.

Is it possible to have both sets of TOC – one to insert in the document, one for the Navigator?

[phspaelti]

As far as I can see, this does not seem to be possible.

A possible workaround is as follows:

1. Save the styles relevant for the TOC in a style sheet called "Full TOC".
2. Remove the "include in TOC" from levels 4-6.
3. Save the relevant styles in a style sheet called "Short TOC".
4. Now you can switch between the two types of TOC easily by using import from style sheet, and then overwriting the styles

Note also that since the TOC does not update automatically, if you insert the TOC using the "Short TOC" styles and then switch back to the "Full TOC" styles you will in fact have what you want until you need to update the TOC again.

[shmuel]

Thank you Philip, that is clever and makes sense!

Shmuel

[martin]

Philip is correct that there's no built-in support for this, but as he mentioned there are ways to workaround it if you really want. All the same I'll consider your post here as a feature request, thanks Shmuel!