I'm working in a long document in Word for Mac 2011 that has a TOC already created. I've modified some chapter and subhead titles, and a few sections have changed pages, so I clicked on the Update button to bring the TOC up-to-date.

But after the TOC is finished updating, I can no longer click on the chapter or subhead titles to take me directly to those sections.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple step I can take to keep my TOC functional?

Thanks!

A Table of Contents is created using a field. If you edit the field results to add hyperlinks to the texts (the page numbers are linked regardless) the update the field, all the changes you have added are lost as the field is recreated. If you want the links to remain, then make sure you don't create or update the TOC until you have finished editing the document, then unlink the field before maing the changes. The TOC then becomes part of the text of the document (and is no longer updatable)

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