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[Power Automate] Populate a Microsoft Word Template - Table of Content

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to generate documents using a Word Template (.docx) in Power Automate, and I need the final document to include a Table of Contents (TOC) that is automatically updated based on the headings (Heading 1) that I send from the flow.

However, I’m running into several issues:

When I send text that should appear as Heading 1, the Word template does not update the TOC.
Even after converting the generated file to PDF, the TOC still shows outdated entries.
I tried using HTML with <h1>, but the Word Template does not convert these tags into Word heading styles.
I also tried several common suggestions from the community (Rich Text Content Controls, HTML-to-text conversions, etc.), but none of them cause the TOC to refresh automatically.

At this point, I’m not finding any supported way to generate a document from a Word Template (.docx), insert headings dynamically, and end up with a correctly updated Table of Contents, either in the DOCX or in the final PDF.

Any guidance or working solutions would be greatly appreciated.

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you are right there is no direct method currently which will update TOC while working with word template. It can be done with some paid service connectors options like Power2Apps or PDF4me , both are paid connector and can suffice your requirement.

If you want to go free then there is effort for development with Open XML + office scripts (no license needed) but this wont be using word template. you have to generate DOCX using OpenXML (in Azure Function or local script) -> build the document programmatically , insert real word heading styles ( h1, h2 , etc) -> Add TOC field -> Refresh TOC using office scripts.

OpenXML builds the file, and Office Scripts uses the actual Word engine to refresh the TOC. But yes there is development efforts required for this method.

I dont think any other supported way as of now for TOC refresh.

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