The TOC is automatically created and appears with a gray background color around the text. On the left side of this window you can see a preview of the TOC. Next the Insert Index or Table of Contents dialog will appear. Insert > Table of Contents and Index > Table of Contents Place the cursor in the position where you want it to appear.For example, you can use the Heading 1 style for chapter titles and the Heading 2 and Heading 3 styles for chapter subheadings. Before you insert the TOC, make sure that you have applied headings and styled them consistently. Since the procedure to “reveal” the hidden text is not obvious at all, the prompt should explain it: double click on the variable field (enable View> Field Shading to make the field more visible) and change the value from 0 to 1 (and vice versa to hide the section).A table of contents or (TOC) is created from the headings of your document. Where you would put your prompt for the alternate document, Insert> Field> More Fields, Variables tab, Set Variable Type for the variable. I use an “inverted” condition v=0 because a section is hidden when the condition is true and we, as human, prefer to consider true for display. V is the variable name, choose any fitting your taste.

In the section properties, tick the Hide box and enter v=0 in the With Condition line. This section is conditionally hidden depending on the value of a variable. To keep everything inside a single document, the alternate file can be insert as Insert> Text from File inside a section. (Also, OS name and LO version would have been useful.) As a consequence, if your recipient does not store the sent material under the same path, Ctrl+click or double-click will not work. There is however a big caveat: the URL gives the absolute path to the linked document.

Send both your document and the linked file as it will not be stored inside the document. This text will be displayed instead of the URL. A URL in the form file:///… will be entered in the Path box. Selct the linked document by clicking on the file browser icon (looking like a folder). In the dialog which pops up, click on the Document icon. You insert a hyperlink with Insert> Hyperlink. But this only covers partially your requirement. What you want to do is called an hyperlink.

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