After working with LO user guides, I have come to the opinion that the Table of Contents (ToC) would not be very helpful to a LibreOffice user when trying to find information on how to do something with text to images. Looking at the ToC of a user guide it is very sparse in providing information for users.
Solutions to this problem are as follows:
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Include the ToC from the individual chapters into the user guide ToC. This would increase the number of pages taken up by the ToC, but would provide more information for a LibreOffice user.
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Retain the chapter ToC when a chapter is added to a user guide. This would provide more information at chapter level to a LibreOffice user when trying to find out how to do things. I have created user guides using this method and they did look very good and were reasonably informative.
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Create an index for a user guide at the back of a user guide. However, an index should be created by someone who has good knowledge of indexing. A poor index is no index at all and would make a LibreOffice user guide look very poor. My knowledge of indexing is almost non-existent. I know what to do, but that is my limit.
It would be good to know what other people think of the above so that we can go forward in improving the usability of LibreOffice user guides.
Regards
PeeWee