I have a problem with repetition of a heading in a table of conten

[Terry]

I have a problem with repetition of a heading in a table of contents. It is a
top level heading (H1), the second heading in the document and neither the
first H1 heading nor those after the second have the problem. I am using
Office 2007 and the document is 1997 – 2003 format.

Is there a solution to this, please?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The usual reason is that there is either a manual page break before the
heading or an empty paragraph formatted with the Heading 1 style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Terry]

Hi Suzanne,

Thank you for the help. There was in fact a page break before the heading
and when I removed it the problem disappeared. I then inserted a new page
break and it was still fine. I then undid the changes and turned on "show
paragraph marks". The problem proved to be a space before the page break
line.

Cheers,

Terry

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

Terry,

Sometimes the best way to avoid this problem is to use paragraph formatting
to put a page break before the heading - either by directly formatting the
individual instance or by modifying the heading style. Manually inserted
page breaks (Ctrl+Enter) before headings often cause such unintended
results.
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Terry]

Good point, Gordon. We have been modifying headings as part of building up
new report and proposal styles but missed this one. Thank you. Terry