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Old 12-13-2011, 01:51 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Tango Mike View Post
Using Word 2008 for Mac (OS10.6.3) I've formatted about 30 books for conversion to epub and mobi with Calibre, and in all cases, I've included a manual TOC within Word that links the TOC to the chapters and the chapters back to the TOC because I believe this is a nice feature for ease of navigation within the eBook. I realize this is not required for Calibre's auto-generated TOC function, and that some feel it's redundant. But whether it is or isn't, the results have been flawless, with both the manual and auto-generated TOCs working as advertised.

All of this previous work has been done with Word document generated from a new file on my computer, but I've now re-formatted a friend's manuscript and something's happening with the auto-TOC that baffles me. The manual TOC function is perfect: Preface, Chapters One through Ten, Appendix A-C, and Bibliography.

But for some reason, the auto-TOC is missing the Preface, Chapter One, all of the Appendices and the Bibliography. As far as I can tell, I didn't create those missing elements any differently than the others, and they all use the Heading1 style. Chapters Two through Ten are listed and functioning.

I checked preferences and found the "Force auto-TOC generation" turned off, but I'd never turned it on before and haven't had this problem. I turned it on and reconverted the file with the same results. Calibre isn't recognizing these seven elements.

Any suggestions on what might be wrong?

Thanks.
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You need to set up the Conversions TOC template to pick up those additional section headings.
I am at a loss why Chapter 1 is not detected. It might be the markup for that is different.
Note that it might be easier to fix the missing additional TOC items in Sigil than fight getting all the tiny details nailed to add the proper XPATH notation to the detection
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