Bug 169212 - Support always-in-sync tables of contents
Summary: Support always-in-sync tables of contents
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: TableofContents-Indexes
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Reported: 2025-11-02 13:39 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-11-02 13:39 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-02 13:39:29 UTC
Thirty or forty years ago, it would perhaps have been cumbersome for a document writing app like StarWriter, WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, to insert a dynamically-self-updating table of contents. But these days - it is usually (or always?) not much of a hassle to burden LibreOffice with also updating a ToC when edits are made. 

So, while I'm not suggesting we do this by default, I am suggesting we add support for an always-in-synch table of contents: It would be an opt-in toggle, and only available when the ToC cannot be edited manually.