Table of Contents

[RWright]

Hello,

I created a table of contents for a report and it wont recognize my section
headings. The TOC will recognize the subheadings, but not the main ones. It
initially recognized them, but the last time that I updated the TOC, they
disappeared, leaving only the subheadings. I have gone back and made sure
that all headings are formatted as "Heading 1" to no avail. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I can't replicate the problem without explicitly turning off Heading 1. What
version of Word do you have?

Press Alt+F9 and look at the TOC field. What does it say? The default
usually is:

TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u

Does yours say "2-3" or something else instead of beginning at "1..."?

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi RW

I created a table of contents for a report and it wont recognize my section
headings. The TOC will recognize the subheadings, but not the main ones. It
initially recognized them, but the last time that I updated the TOC, they
disappeared, leaving only the subheadings. I have gone back and made sure
that all headings are formatted as "Heading 1" to no avail. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

version of Word?

Is anything special about the H1 placement? They are not, for instance,
in a textbox?

0.2cents
Robert

 

[RWright]

It shows the default:

TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u

Also, in response to Robert, the headings arent in a text box or anything
like that. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

What happens if you cut the document in half (i.e., paste the first half or
so into a new document). Does the TOC behave correctly there?

And... what versions of Word are you using?

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

 

[Stefan Blom]

Check the formatting of the TOC 1 style. In particular, make sure that it
hasn't been inadvertently formatted as white or hidden text.