[SAM HDC]

I have Word 2000 on Windows XP. We are using heading styles (H1, H2, etc.)
in our reports of Trebuchet MS, right justified. Word is automatically
converting Normal-style text into a Heading when I manually apply formatting
(bold, font size, etc.) that matches an existing heading style. These lines
then show up in my Table of Contents as headings. Here's one example: I do
not want the TOC itself to show up as a line in the TOC, so I use
Normal-style text and then just manually change the boldface, font type, and
font size to match the other headings. That way, it looks like a heading, but
it would not show up in the TOC. However, Word seems to recognize that this
combination of formatting features matches an existing heading style, and it
automatically converts it to the Heading style it thinks it is, and so it
shows up again in the TOC when I update it. Is this a Word feature that I
can disable somewhere, or is it just a bug? (As a side note, I don't
remember having problems with this when we used left justified headings in
the default Times New Roman. ) Help! I need to have a way to manually
format certain lines of text and not have them turn into headings...!