TOC problem when used in Sweden

[vc7vc]

I created a document with a Table of Contents that displays my own Doc-Title
1, 2, and 3 styles. It is a boilerplate document to be used to write
procedures by people in many countries. It works just fine - until my
coworkers in Sweden try to use it. All of the styles in the document work
fine for them. However, when they select the TOC and update it, the TOC is
replaced by an error code (in Swedish) that tells them that there are no
bookmarks to use to create the TOC. This happens even if they just open the
file, make no changes, and try to update the TOC.

I thought the Swedish version of Word would be identical to the U.S. version
just with translated buttons and messages but it seems there must be some
coding differences. Any ideas what is going on and what I can do to fix the
problem?

TIA, Vivian

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you toggle the TOC field codes, you will see something like

{ TOC \h \z \t "Title,1" }

My guess is that the quote symbols "" are the problem. Replace them with the
local quote symbols or try removing them altogether.

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[vc7vc]

Thanks Graham. I'll try it and let you know whether that solves the problem.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Actually, the problem is the comma in the field code. Replace it with a
semi-colon, which is the list separator used on Swedish systems, by default.
Then update the field.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Damn - I forgot about comma separators

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[vc7vc]

Thank you both. I sent Sweden a revised template to try and am waiting for a
response.

Vivian

 

[vc7vc]

Stefan,

Your solution was the correct one. At first I only replaced the commas with
colons between the style names (because that is what I considered to be the
list separator comma) - that didn't work. However, when I replaced all of
the commas in the TOC code with semi-colons, it did work!

Thank you soooooooo much!

Vivian

 

[Stefan Blom]

You are welcome.