Daiya Mitchell wrote:
The fundamental issue here is that Document Map guesses and displays
what it thinks is probably, more-or-less, kind of, a map of the
document. If Word finds a paragraph that smells like a heading,
Document Map will change the outline level of the paragraph and
therefore display it in the Document Map. A short paragraph, in
bold, in a larger font than normal will almost always end up being
displayed in Document Map, because Word guesses that it might be a
heading.

As a precaution (though not a solution) do Tools Autocorrect
Options. On the Autoformat as you Type dialog, un-tick "Define
styles based on your formatting".

Actually, there are some solutions listed here, to fix this after the
fact:

http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm

Thanks.

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Jeff Stevens
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