--toc with DOCX requires a confirmation in Word

--toc with DOCX requires a confirmation in Word

[Anton Shepelev]

Hello, all

Whenever  I include a table of contents into my Word
document by means of the --toc option, MS Word  asks
the following quiestion before opening the resulting
file:

   This document contains fields that may  refer  to
   other  files. Do you want to update the fields in
   the document?

I must answer in the affirmative in order to have  a
TOC.  It is discussed here on StackOverflow:

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/60098480/2862241

The answer says the message appears because the doc-
ument has some "fields"  that  referer  to  external
sources  and are configured to update automatically.
Must the table of contents be such a field?

Re: --toc with DOCX requires a confirmation in Word

[Leonard Rosenthol]

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This just came up on this list a few days ago - here is what I wrote then:

It has to do with the limited amount of info that we are able to add to the
native docx format vs. what Word actually expects.   More details at
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/458


On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 6:33 AM Anton Shepelev <anton.txt-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hello, all
>
> Whenever  I include a table of contents into my Word
> document by means of the --toc option, MS Word  asks
> the following quiestion before opening the resulting
> file:
>
>    This document contains fields that may  refer  to
>    other  files. Do you want to update the fields in
>    the document?
>
> I must answer in the affirmative in order to have  a
> TOC.  It is discussed here on StackOverflow:
>
>     https://stackoverflow.com/a/60098480/2862241
>
> The answer says the message appears because the doc-
> ument has some "fields"  that  referer  to  external
> sources  and are configured to update automatically.
> Must the table of contents be such a field?
>
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