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bronty · 06-15-2011, 08:23 PM

Hi -

I have over 1000 interviews I'd like to combine into one large ebook. Currently, they are each saved separately as Word documents. I found a program (macro) that will join the files together in Word, and I can convert to ePub (or whatever format) from there.

Where I am a bit stuck is creating a linked table of contents automatically. Each entry in the table of contents should be a clickable link to the respective interview. It can be a simple list of numbers (and I can add a static key to the page). Ideally, I could extract the first line of each document as an entry in the table of contents. That would make the links more descriptive. In any case, I want the TOC to be created automatically (rather than my linking all 1000+ interviews by hand).

Any suggestions?

Thank You

06-15-2011, 08:23 PM	#1
bronty Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad 2	Creating a book from 1000+ individual docs Hi - I have over 1000 interviews I'd like to combine into one large ebook. Currently, they are each saved separately as Word documents. I found a program (macro) that will join the files together in Word, and I can convert to ePub (or whatever format) from there. Where I am a bit stuck is creating a linked table of contents automatically. Each entry in the table of contents should be a clickable link to the respective interview. It can be a simple list of numbers (and I can add a static key to the page). Ideally, I could extract the first line of each document as an entry in the table of contents. That would make the links more descriptive. In any case, I want the TOC to be created automatically (rather than my linking all 1000+ interviews by hand). Any suggestions? Thank You