Unless you unlink the TOC, by converting it to text as per my advice in post #2, you run the risk of ending up with a field that says "No table of contents entries found." or contains headings for your prospectus document rather than from your book. Once you unlink the TOC, the other issues will go away.

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That all works, but even after I change the TOC to text in the manner you suggested, the entire TOC seems to remain a single field (if you click on any part of it, the whole thing is selected), and hovering the mouse over it causes Word to display the message that one can Ctrl-Click to follow a link to it (or ti the particular clicked on part of it), links which do not work when the TOC is posted to another document, but still claim to be there.

How can I turn it into true text and nothing to but text?

Peyton

If you follow all the steps I posted, the TOC cannot remain as a field - it must be converted to text. Somehow, I suspect you missed the Ctrl-A step before pressing Ctrl-Shift-F9. Either that or your Word installation is broken ...

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