Table of Contents hangs

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I am trying to create a table of contents in a Word 2002 SP-2 document of 1013 pages
The formatting for ToC is Header 1 (about 300) and Header 2 (about 4500)
When I try to create the ToC the Word program hangs, with the status bar statin
Word is building the table of contents, searching page..
Sometimes the seraching page is the last one in the document, sometimes it is onl
page 2 or 4
I have to exit using the Task Manager
Win 2K sp
Pentium 4 170
500 Mb RA
Any ideas
TI
Stuar
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?U3R1YXJ0?=,

When you say it "hangs", how long have you waited before forcing it to end?

After you end like this, is there a TOC field in the document?

Have you deleted and reinserted the TOC a number of times in this document?

If you Ctrl+A, then Shift+Left arrow once (to select all but the last paragraph mark),
then copy/paste into a new file, close the original doc (and all other apps): can you
successfully create a TOC in the new file?
I am trying to create a table of contents in a Word 2002 SP-2 document of 1013 pages.
The formatting for ToC is Header 1 (about 300) and Header 2 (about 4500).
When I try to create the ToC the Word program hangs, with the status bar stating
Word is building the table of contents, searching page...
Sometimes the seraching page is the last one in the document, sometimes it is only
page 2 or 4.
I have to exit using the Task Manager.
Win 2K sp 4
Pentium 4 1700
500 Mb RAM
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Thanks for your reply
Waited about 45 minutes, taskmanager reported Winword.exe using 98-99 % CPU
No, there is no TOC field
Yes, deleted and reinserted three or four times
Cannot create TOC in the new file. Same as above, hangs
Stuar
 
After my previous message, I decided to give it one last chance. I started the TOC insertion and left the PC to run overnight. I returned after 17 hours, and the TOC had been produced, so it looks as if it was just a matter of giving the program a long time, which, of course, I couldn't do while at work
Thanks again for your help
Stuar
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?U3R1YXJ0?=,

OK, based on your complete set of responses, I'm guessing that the document
holds quite a number of "stray" _TOC bookmarks and that this is slowing down the
TOC generation.

For another time, rather than deleting the TOC, simply update it (right-click in
the TOC and choose the Update command) or, if you want to change the options or
something, go back into the dialog box - it will offer to replace an existing
TOC.

If you ever need to regenerate the TOC for this document, you should delete the
current TOC field, clean out the _Toc bookmarks - most likely with a macro -
then generate a new TOC.
Waited about 45 minutes, taskmanager reported Winword.exe using 98-99 % CPU.
No, there is no TOC field.
Yes, deleted and reinserted three or four times.

After my previous message, I decided to give it one last chance. I started the
Click to expand...
TOC insertion and left the PC to run overnight. I returned after 17 hours, and
the TOC had been produced, so it looks as if it was just a matter of giving the
program a long time, which, of course, I couldn't do while at work.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
 
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