create chapter book in Word

Question

I have written chapters in separate Word files.

What is the best way to combine these in a chapter book with table of contents

Answer 1

You can create a Table of Contents for all of the documents without combining them. In the document in which you want the Table of Contents to appear, insert a Table of Contents (TOC) field, followed by Reference Document (RD) fields pointing to each of the other documents. For more details, see:

TOC - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/field-codes-toc-table-of-contents-field-1f538bc4-60e6-4854-9f64-67754d78d05c

RD - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/field-codes-rd-referenced-document-field-1730f463-ea41-4736-8061-499e778dd806

Alternatively, if you still want to combine all the documents and simply add the TOC field at the start, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-vba/43339-combine-multiple-word-documents.html