TOC not displaying

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I have an odd problem, I have been given a document that has used heading
styles, but when we come to update the TOC, nothing updates and I can't see
why. The first time I tried it asked me if I wanted to overwrite the
existing, but what existing one, there isn't one that I can see.

Can anybody help
Thanks
JulieG
 
What happens if you select the whole document and press F9 (to update fields)?

If you are seeing field codes, such as { TOC \o "1-3" }, instead of fields,
press Alt+F9.
 
Hi

Nothing happens, and I'm not seeing anything but when I update TOC is asks
me if I want to overwrite it? This is so strange I've never had this happen
before,
 
See if the TOC styles have been formatted in hidden text (which seems
unlikely, though not impossible). If that doesn't help, display nonprinting
marks (you can press Ctrl+Shift+8) and copy the text, not including the final
paragraph mark (¶) of the document , into a new file. Does that allow you to
create a TOC that works?
 
Thanks, I copied the text into a new document as suggested, that allowed me
to create a TOC, I copied just the TOC back to the original document and it
nows appears to work. Very strange. But many thanks

JulieG
 
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