This is something of a repeat of a thread on the same topic dated 4/20 and
titled Tables of Contents and Styles. Neither of the respondants seemed to
understand the problem. Either that, or they have done something to solve it
and so have forgotten that it is a problem. I am looking for that something.

The problem is that regardless of which styles I select to display in my TOC
(click Options button and display "Table of Contents Options" dialog), the
styles are displayed correctly, but if I re-open that dialog (to edit my
selections perhaps), Word has forgotten my original selections, and I have to
set it all up again. Changing the TOC in the document's template does not
help. Word forgets the selections in a template just as completely as it does
in a document. The question is, is there any way to force Word to retain the
selections made in that dialog so that 1) I can make selected edits rather
than setting up all the styles again and 2) I can have some minimal
confidence that my selections will persist?


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John D