G'day srd ,

If you make the final para mark of the heading invisible, then the
following para will appear to run in it. Thus you could manually
'trim' the content for the toc pages.

Eg

Heading 1 This is my heading text hidden para mark
NotHeading 1 , it is long and boring and this bit is not in TOC.

Displays

This is my heading text


in the TOC and

This is my heading text, it is long and boring and this bit is not in
TOC.

as the heading in the document.

You could also use TOC fields to manually specify the content of your
TOC.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice


srd reckoned:

Section headings in legal briefs tend to be long. When creating a table of
contents using the native heading styles, Word doesn't automatically break
the lines, and the entries crowd their page numbers. My workaround is to
manually break the entries, but when I update the contents, the line
breaks revert. Is there a way to get Word to automatically break the
entries or at least to avoid having them revert?

Stephen