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Stefan Blom[_3_] Stefan Blom[_3_] is offline
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Default Unwanted text in TOC

I agree: those descriptions certainly aren't (sufficiently) clear. To learn
the difference, one has to do some testing.

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"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message
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And how could I have figured that out? Here are the descriptions from the
field options dialog:

\o Builds a table of content by using outline levels instead of TC
entries
\u Builds a table of content by using the applied paragraph outline level

Pam

Pamelia Caswell wrote:
Hi, Stefan,

Oh, that's a much faster way to clear up the problem TOC--but I'd still
want
to rid my document of those spurious headings and paragraph levels.

I've often wondered about the difference between \o and \u. I've long
added
the paragraph level to style definitions to so the style would get picked
up
by the TOC, and I've deleted the \u with no effect. Now I know that's
because \u applies to _direct formatting_.

Thanks so much,

Pam

If your assumption is correct, deleting the \u switch from the TOC field
code would suffice (the switch instructs Word to include paragraphs that

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Thanks.


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