TOC and Excel in a Word doc

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I tried taking several individual tables in Word (each table is a separate doc) and copying them one by one into a single Word document and Word kept changing the names of and second and subsequent tables I added so that's no good.

Now I've converted the Word tables to individual Excel "tables". They copy OK without changing the names so that's good. However, I would like for the TOC to update with the name of each Excel entry. There is a header line and the font is correct but Word does not recognize it as a header 1, 2, or 3. Is there a way to get Word to recognize these individual tables or do I have to put a header on each page before the Excel entry?

Thanks.

Bob