Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I could not make your suggestion work.
The TOC would not capture only the text that exists after General Area and
Topic Area. The TOC still picks up those terms.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Apply a different style to the terms "General Area" and "Topic Area"...that
is, if you are using styles to create the TOC.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"TJ" wrote in message
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I have a document for which I am creating a TOC. Many of the pages in the
document follow a similar pattern:

General Area: xxxxxxxxxx
Topic Area: yyyyyyyyyy

The terms General Area and Topic Area appear on pages and new General
Areas
and Topic Areas are discussed on each page.

My current TOC contains the following:

General Area: xxxxxxxxxx.................#
Topic Area: yyyyyyyyyy.................#

I do not want to display the terms General Area and Topic Area in my TOC.
I
only want to see what the General Area and Topic Area are. I would prefer
my
TOC to look like this:

xxxxxxxxx............#
yyyyyyyyy............#

What do I have to do to create a TOC that will meet my needs?

Thanks.