Doubled TOC Entry

[Idaho Word Man]

I posted this yesterday but didn't get any responses. I thought I'd better
try again.

I have a large (600+ pages) multi-chapter document. Each chapter is a
separate document, and in the document that contains all my front matter I
use "RD" field codes (e.g., { RD "Chapter-1_R5C.doc" \f }) to generate a TOC.

My front-matter document includes the cover page, TOC, lists of tables and
figures, an acronym list, and the Executive Summary. The headings on the
lists of tables, figures, and acronyms use a style called "Con-Fig-Table"
that is included as a TOC1 heading.

For some reason (gremlins, no doubt), the acronyms list shows up twice in
the TOC. Every time I regenerate the TOC, I end up with two identical lines
that say
ACRONYMS ........................xviii
ACRONYMS ........................xviii

I can't find any reason why that ONE wretched entry should be doubled. There
are no tracked changes at that point. There are no paragraphs fore or aft
that are formatted with the "Con-Fig-Table" style. I've turned on the options
to view hidden text and bookmarks, and I can't find anything amiss. As far as
I can tell, the heading "ACRONYMS" is formatted precisely the same as the
headings for Figures and Tables.

Any suggestions on why one entry should get two lines in the TOC or how I
can get it to be satisfied with only a single line?

I'm running Word 2003 on XP Professional.

Thanks,

Fred

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have a manual page break before the heading? If so, see if deleting
it and formatting the heading as "Page break before" solves the problem. I
wouldn't really expect this to generate two entries (though it might result
in a blank entry), but who knows?

 

[Idaho Word Man]

I don't believe it! That did it!

(Now I need to decide why the page break before the list of tables and the
list of figures didn't double those entries, too.)

Thank you so much.

Fred

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Now that *is* a good question. This is the sort of thing that can make you
pull all your hair out, though, if you let it get to you. Sometimes you just
have to figure out what works and not agonize too much over *why* it works!