When you are crafting a content specification table of contents, you might want to first “brainstorm” a TOC using Excel, and then simply export the structure to Flare once you’re done. You can write a short VBA function that does the trick. The animated GIF shows how it works and here’s a spreadsheet for you to play with. 🙂
For more info about content specifications, see Kai Weber’s excellent post about it.
To get the generated TOC to Flare, you need to create a text file, paste the result from the generateTOC_XML() function, and save the text file with the .fltoc file extension in the Projects > TOC folder in your Flare project.
Here’s the VBA code:
Have fun! 🙂
