When I am trying to update my existing Table Of Content or create a new one, it make it right to left i.e. the header titles on the right and the page number on the left.
Although There is right to left language installed, it is not part of this document and the paragraph is defined to work from left to right.

Word even suggest me an automatic TOC that is also right to left -
Why this is happening and how can I control the TOC to be left to right as usuall?

Make sure that the correct language is applied to text. In particular, make sure that the language formatting is correct at the location where the table of contents was inserted. Also, check the language formatting of the TOC styles which determine the formatting of TOC edntries.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

The problem appears even when I open the 'Table Of Content' dialog in 'Reference' ribbon. In this dialog in the problematic documet the 2 build-in-automatic-tables that are suggested to me, the page numbers appear in the left side, unlike all other documents that I open in which in this dialog the header are in the left and the page number are in the right.
It's word template dialog even that changed
If I could attach a screen-shot to this forum it could make it quickly understoond

So the change should be in the document level styling/ formatting/ template...

Do you usually click the Quick Reply button? If you then click the Go Advanced button, you should find a Manage Attachments button at the bottom of the page.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Stefan Blom

Sorry, I tried both quick reply and regular post reply and there was no 'advanced button' or any other button that allows attachments. Perhaps it's enabled only for authorized users.

In respnse to your previous answer:
Where can I set the language formatting of the TOC in MS-word 2010?

The Go Advanced button should be below the message box (in the Quick Reply form). I don't know why you can't see it. :-(

To modify a TOC style (which determines the formatting of a specific level of the TOC): Place the insertion point in a level 1 item of the table of contents. Press Ctrl+Shift+S to display the Apply Styles pane; you'll notice that the style name says "TOC 1." Click the Modify button. In the Modify Style dialog, click Format and then click Language. Make sure to specify the desired language. Click OK to confirm changes. Repeat this for the other TOC styles.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Now I found it. I am such a low-tech...

I tried to change the formatting of my TOC and change the language definition in the formatting settings. But still when I open the TOC dialog, the automatic table suggestion are displayed RTL instead of LTR as you can see in the attached screen-shot (finally )
The left attachment displays how it appears in my problematic document.
The right attachment displays how it appears in most of my documents and how it should appear

Attached Images

	RTL TOC style.png (25.1 KB, 16 views)
	LTR TOC style.png (56.7 KB, 17 views)

If you select all the text in the document and then apply the correct language via Review tab | Language | Set Proofing Language, does that fix things?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Tried it. Still see the same behavior when viewing the built-in automcatic TOC styles

Since neither applying the formatting directly to text nor modifying the TOC styles works, I don't know what to suggest next. :-(

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

So perhaps it's a bug in Word 2010, then.

go to page layout and click the small arrow near page setup.
choose layout and in section direction choose left to right
and press set as default.

That was a great idea! But I'm still trying to debug the TOC from other things - the TOC comes out not straight at all; the tab settings are not uniform, etc. Any other good ideas?