Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help, as this problem is driving me crazy and I can't seem to find a solution.



I'm using Word Office 365 and my document headings display correctly in both the main body of the document and within the automatically generated table of contents. However, when I print, one of the headings in the table of contents does not print correctly - it concertinas together with the page number. It always seems to happen with the Level 1 Heading in Chapter 3 of the TOC. If I change to a Level 2 heading, all displays correctly.
I've tried re-formating the Level 1 heading but that hasn't fixed the issue.

I've attached a sample document and PDF to show the problem

Thanks for any help you can give.

Attached Files

	Test.docx (142.8 KB, 10 views)
	Test.pdf (85.7 KB, 8 views)

See the screenshot below.
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There is a left tab setting in your TOC1 style, for whatever reason, that is catching the page number. The other two entries have text past that stop and so it does not interfere.

Generating a Table of Contents - Complex Documents
TOC Tips and Tricks

How to attach a screenshot or file in this forum.

Edit: Sorry I wasn't explicit. You need to change/modify the TOC1 style to remove the unneeded tab stop. As for why it might be there, my best guess is that you have the tab stop in an underlying style such as Normal.

The problem is cause by the excessive number of left-aligned tab-stop you have for that level in the Table of Contents - the last one especially.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you both for the response. I'm not sure why there are excessive tabs as I thought the TOC had automatically created itself. I have found a work around by expanding the font in TOC 1 by 0.5 point. It seemed that it didn't like short words. If the word is 6 characters or fewer it will fail visibly on the screen. If it's 7 characters it *may* fail when printing but look ok on the screen. If I replaced the letter 'L' with another letter (E or P) it would print ok. So I assumed it was a bug with heading sizes and expanded the font and hey presto, all good.

All you had to do was to drag the offending tabstop, as indicated in Charles' post, off the ruler...

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Brillaint! Thanks. I thought it didn't work as it looked like it messed up a few other things, but with a quick undo all is right in the world.
Thanks Macropod and Charles - really appreciate it.