Is there a way using officer to update an existing table of contents and table of tables with in my document? I know about the function body_add_toc() but is there a way to update these elements without having to recreate them?
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Cindy Meister
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No, TOC is beeing computed by Word. R does not know what content goes in what page. From what I know, the only way to achieve that would be a VBS Macro.
David Gohel
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Thanks David that makes sense, I will rethink my set up in that case. Thanks for all your work, your packages have been a life saver. – Jordan Hackett Apr 24 '20 at 16:08
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As far as I'm aware David is correct.
If you need to automate this process you can use the update_toc(x) function found in the officerWinTools R package.
The officerWinTools R package requires a Windows operating system with Microsoft Office installed (the functions of this package rely upon VBScript ran in Command Prompt).
The update_toc(x) function is also embedded in the print_docx_pdf(x, target = "path") function which will export a document created with the officer R package as a .PDF to a given path.
You can install the officerWinTools R package from GitHub:
devtools::install_github("joshmire/officerWinTools")
Also, shout outs to David; your R packages have made my work much less of a headache.
Joshua Mire
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