Re: Any Word specialist? Issue with TOC

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

Have you checked for any paragraph formatting in the headings that the 
TOC is picking up?  How about the TOC styles?  It looks like there is a 
paragraph return or a line break in the headings or you have headings 
wrapping across two pages or two sections.  Reveal the paragraph 
formatting for the document and take a look at what is mixed in with 
your headings.  Improperly formatted documents can wreak havoc with 
Word's automation features.

Lauren


Claudine CHAUSSON wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a Word guru. Everyone here at work thinks I'm one but I'm
> not as I hate working with Word (at least for texts longer than a page ...).
>
> I'm struggling with the look of a table of contents. It looked fine until I
> recreated it once more and now it looks crappy like this sample:
>
> 1.2 - DOCUMENT EVOLUTIONS		4
>  RELATED DOCUMENTS			4
> 1.3 -	4
>  TERMINOLOGY	            	5
> 1.4 -	5
>
> It should, of course, look like this:
> 1.2 - DOCUMENT EVOLUTIONS		4
> 1.3 -	RELATED DOCUMENTS			4
> 1.4 -	TERMINOLOGY	            	5
>
> I have no clue about what went wrong. Some parts of the TOC are OK (randomly
> it seems but things are never random ... well ... in Word ... maybe). I also
> have this issue on some level 3 titles too.
>
> Any idea on how to fix that?
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail (and even more thanks if you
> can solve this issue).
>
> Claudine
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