You will have to have a paragraph return after each "general area" and
"topic area". And those two items will have to be a style that is not
included in the TOC. I have seen people create a new style called, for
instance, Heading1a, where Heading1a is NOT included in the TOC.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"TJ" wrote in message
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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
news
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.