[Ed]

It's one of those screwy things you learn to look for... you need a space
before and after the greater-than sign. I don't know why it's so picky.
Okay - it worked. Let's file that one away, right alongside the time I
learned about left-hand threading by spending 2 hours trying to get a bolt
off the car!

Thanks once again, Jay.
Ed

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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It's one of those screwy things you learn to look for... you need a space
before and after the greater-than sign. I don't know why it's so picky.

The Different First Page solution is, if not "better", at least more
reliable.

Jay

Ed wrote:
I solved the problem by using a Different First Page header, and
putting "Continued" in the second page header.

I'd still like to know what I did wrong with that IF field, though,
if you can see anything.
Ed

"Ed" wrote in message
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Hi, Jay.

As a matter of fact, the TOC is already in its own section. So I
adjusted the header and footer dimensions to break the list in an
appropriate place and set my TOC column headings in the header. Then I
tried to add an IF filed after "TABLE OF CONTENTS" and things
got real screwy! I tried to insert:
{IF {PAGE}1 "(continued)" ""}
(braces entered with Ctrl+F9), but got the result:
Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for
conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op
code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error!
Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for
conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op
code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.

I thought I was going by the Help file syntax, but obviously Word
doesn't agree! Any help?

Ed

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Hi Ed,

The TOC is actually just one field (right-click it and choose Toggle
Field Codes to see that), so updating it is always going to remove
any direct changes you make inside it.

One way to get what you want is to wait until the document is
completely finished, update the TOC one last time, and then unlink
the TOC field (select it and Ctrl+Shift+F9) to change it into plain
text. Now you can format and alter it all you want, but you can't
update it again unless you delete all that text and insert a new
TOC field. My preferred solution is not to put "Table of Contents
(continued)"
at the top of the next page at all; if the reader can't see that
it's a TOC, maybe they should "step away from the book so no one
gets hurt". :-) At most, I'd make the TOC a section of its own and
put "Table of Contents" in the header of that section -- see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm.

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Ed wrote:
I've never used a TOC before, and probably wouldn't now if it
hadn't already been in the document I was given to work on. As
I've added sections and adjusted things, I've Updated Entire Table
(this is in Word XP, by the way). Now it overflows onto the next
page. I can't seem to adjust the line spacing, and I can't seem
to break this so I can put "Table of Contents (continued)" at the
top of the next page - the next Update clears it out. Any
suggestions are welcome. Ed