First, thank you Charles for your advice. I'll take it and apply it, since I'm at the beginning of this year's iteration of the Designer's Notebook, and fix my template file to carry the fix you recommended as well, so it works better in the future.

Second, I found that the problem was apparently that I had copied forward for the 6th of May entry and pasted a version from clip-board that did not carry the functionality that feeds the TOC. I went back, caught up this issue and fixed it forward, through the current entries from May 5th on, and VOILA'...all is well in my Word-world again.

Thanks to all who considered this issue. I'm closing out now on this one.

Jeff