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If you are writing a long document or a book, you may want to create a Table of Contents (TOC) for your document. The easiest way to create a TOC is to use heading levels, as defined by the Word styles. To do this, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Table of Contents tab of the Table of Contents dialog box.
Note, again, that this process creates a TOC based on heading levels within your document. This means that your document must use heading styles throughout it. (Heading styles are named "Heading 1," "Heading 2," etc.) If you apply these as you are creating your document—or if you go back and apply the styles later—then creating the TOC is a snap, as described above.
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2019-11-01 09:33:10
Ken Endacott
Rich
It looks like Heading 2 is applied as a character style to "Chapt 2" and not as a paragraph style.
Select the whole paragraph and click CTRL + SPACE to remove character formatting.
2019-10-31 14:29:56
Rich
I've got a weird problem w/ my TOC. The document is quite large and it's broken into sub documents and the Master doc contains the TOC. Each subdoc is a chapter where the first page is formatted to start on page 1 and to use the "include chapter no." option with Heading 2 style selected (I know, it's a weird pagination system). For the most part this is working fine. The problem is that 2 chapters are showing in the TOC as starting on page 1 of the Heading 2 from the PREVIOUS chapter, even though the page footer prints the appropriate page no.
IOW, it looks like this
TOC:
Chapt 2.......................3.17-1
2.1 some stuff.............2.1-1
2.2 other things..........2.2-2
Chapter 2
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2.1 some stuff
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page 2.1-1
----------------------next page
2.2 other things
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page 2.2-2
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx END OF EXAMPLE
I have section breaks in place. Chap 3 appears as it should in the TOC, but Chap 4 presents like Chap 2. I have no idea what's going on
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