TOC Nightmare

[Betsy]

I have a document that someone else created. I have to do a TOC. When I
insert one, all kinds of text from the body of the document appears. Is
there a way to un-code everything and start over with creating a toc by
re-coding all level 1, 2, and 3 words?

 

[Peter A]

I have a document that someone else created. I have to do a TOC. When I
insert one, all kinds of text from the body of the document appears. Is
there a way to un-code everything and start over with creating a toc by
re-coding all level 1, 2, and 3 words?

Is your TOC based on heading levels? That's the default, so it probably
is. You can turn on the style area (Tools, Options, View tab, set Style
area width to >0) then go thru the doc and remove heading styles
(Heading 1, Heading 2, etc) from anything you don;t want in the TOC.

This is for Word 2003.

 

[Stefan Blom]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html for the basics of
TOC creation in Word.

Note that when many paragraphs occur in the TOC, for no apparent reason, it
is often caused by the \u switch in the TOC field code. The switch adds any
paragraph that has an outline level defined. Delete it and then update the
TOC (see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm).

See also http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TOCSwitches.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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