OK.
Now I am sure what I want is doable. For doing it you wrote "is to apply the numbers to all headings, but format them as hidden for the relevant range - which you can do via the multilevel list dialogue."

How can I format them as hidden?

Do you expect to be spoon-fed??? Surely you can navigate a dialogue box...

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Paul Edstein
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Dear macropod
It is done. thank you very much. you have solved a great problem of mine and I can use it in my document easily. thank you again.

Hello
I created Multilevel List and made a Table of Contents based on it. Now -as you see in photo attached- numbers of each chapters are displayed in TOC which I want not to be displayed. Numbers in the green area have to be removed from TOC. How can I do it?

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