Well, it's not a "limited application" if I'm "certainly ... not the first person who has asked how to do it". I think I must be missing something. It's a common requirement to calculate page numbers, and TOCs with page numbers are also common, so surely wanting a TOC that refers to calculated page numbers would be just as common a need.

I'm not really a VBA expert - more a keystroke recorder, but one day I might give it a go. But surely there's a generous macromaker out there for whom this would be a piece of cake.