The table of contents is associated with Headings, a type of paragraph, not
page headers.

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"Hilary" wrote in message
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Very kind people on this group, knowledgeable as anyone can be. But I'm
stuck at Square One because I can't wrap my brain around Why WORD
associates
a table of contents with a header (a thing which, IMO, a table of contents
has as much intrinsically in common as it does with a footer: i. e.,
nothing.)