Hi,

I am having a problem with table of contents auto generation. It is happening some (not all) for the heading 1 entries. I have attached a screen shots of the TOC to show the problem and the body of text for heading 1 causing the problem, all I want is standard behaviour for heading 1 entries in the TOC, please help.

Notes:

In the body I cleared the style for the line break above the heading 1 and reset it to normal.

In the body I cleared the style for the heading 1 and reset it to heading 1.

In the body I cleared the style for the heading 2 below the heading 1 and reset it to heading 1.



As far as I know I am using the standard normal.dot and have not made any modifications to the styles. The exception is TOC 4 which defaults to having a border!

Regards,

Ben.

Attached Images

	TOC.png (53.2 KB, 17 views)
	body.png (30.2 KB, 17 views)

Evidently, your TOC Styles are messed up. Without actually seeing the problem document, though, it can be difficult for anyone to diagnose the specifics. Can you attach a document to a post with just the TOC & Headings?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Heading styles are often set as "linked" styles rather than paragraph.


Display your Styles Pane (launcher in bottom right corner of styles dialog).
In the bottom of the pane, check the box to disable linked styles.





Click in the problem paragraph in the body and apply the style. Do not select text.
Update your Table of Contents.

Hi,

Unfortunately, Word on the mac doesn't have unlink style checkbox. However, I move document and tried unlinking on a PC and it didn't help. I share the content of the document and as it is confidential.

Ben.

If you can reproduce the problem in a document where you have replaced any confidential text with nonsense, you can attach that modified document here.

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