Selecting TOC content as per custom tag in Aspose word

[ashish29190]

I am using Aspose word 18.9. We know that the default way to insert Table of content is :

builder.InsertTableOfContents("\o “1-3” \h \z \u");

Here Only H1-H3 tags will be considered for TOC. But Header tags create extra spaces in the content which I don’t want.

So I want to use user-defined tag for TOC. Currently I have created user-defined tag toc .

For example:

<toc>Heading 1</toc>
<toc>Heading 2</toc>

I want this tag to be used to build the TOC.

Is there any way to do so?

Please help!

[tahir.manzoor]

@ashish29190

Please note that InsertTableOfContents will only insert a TOC field, but will not actually build the table of contents. The table of contents is built by Microsoft Word when the field is updated.

You can use hyperlink to bookmark feature to achieve your requirement. Please check the following code example. Hope this helps you.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.InsertBreak(BreakType.PageBreak);
builder.StartBookmark("bookmark");
builder.Write("Bookmarked text");
builder.EndBookmark("bookmark");

builder.MoveToDocumentStart();
// Insert a hyperlink with a document builder
FieldHyperlink field = (FieldHyperlink)builder.InsertField(FieldType.FieldHyperlink, true);
field.Result = "Link to bookmark";
field.SubAddress = "bookmark";
builder.Writeln();
                 
doc.UpdateFields();
doc.Save(MyDir + "output.docx");

[ashish29190]

Hi Tahir,

Thanks for quick reply. I am sorry I didn’t mention, but I am creating word using Html String. So the H1 - H6 tags are being considered by default. Can your solution work with Html content?

[tahir.manzoor]

@ashish29190

You can ignore the heading style in TOC field e.g. { TOC \h \z \t “custom_style,1” }.

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