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All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've
noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Print Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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I have to say when something odd like this happens, I find its more often
than not that the document is someway corrupted. If this happens to more than one doc, is there any chance that they are all related in some way eg originate from the same document maybe? If this is possible, try some of the tricks of fixing corrupted docs ie copying everything but the last paragraph mark to a new document or even copying just the text across to a new doc, reproduce the TOC and see if it still happens. "Kim" wrote: All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Print Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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I don't think the documents are corrupt. It's happening on each document
I've checked so far and all the documents come from a template (I have better than 200 templates). Further, it's happened from a brand new document whether in a template or not. It's not my NORMAL file because I just had Word create a new one for me. It's not causing a big problem because the TOC updates itself when you get past it ... it's just very weird. Can you think of any "update" type settings that may not be checked? "piersonal" wrote: I have to say when something odd like this happens, I find its more often than not that the document is someway corrupted. If this happens to more than one doc, is there any chance that they are all related in some way eg originate from the same document maybe? If this is possible, try some of the tricks of fixing corrupted docs ie copying everything but the last paragraph mark to a new document or even copying just the text across to a new doc, reproduce the TOC and see if it still happens. "Kim" wrote: All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Print Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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This will happen if you open the document in Reading Layout view. You have
three choices: 1. Don't open the document directly from an attachment (Reading Layout view is not automatic in any other situation). 2. Disable Reading Layout view (Tools | Options | General). 3. F9 to update the TOC after opening. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim" wrote in message ... All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Print Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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I'm working in Word 2002 ... Reading Layout view isn't an option. Any other
ideas? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This will happen if you open the document in Reading Layout view. You have three choices: 1. Don't open the document directly from an attachment (Reading Layout view is not automatic in any other situation). 2. Disable Reading Layout view (Tools | Options | General). 3. F9 to update the TOC after opening. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim" wrote in message ... All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Print Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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Nope, sorry. Does updating the TOC straighten out the page numbers?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim" wrote in message ... I'm working in Word 2002 ... Reading Layout view isn't an option. Any other ideas? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This will happen if you open the document in Reading Layout view. You have three choices: 1. Don't open the document directly from an attachment (Reading Layout view is not automatic in any other situation). 2. Disable Reading Layout view (Tools | Options | General). 3. F9 to update the TOC after opening. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kim" wrote in message ... All of the documents that I create have a generated table of contents. I've noticed that while I'm working on a document, the table of contents appears correct and when I select Print Preview it's correct. If I save and close out, open the same file again, and immediately go to Print Preview, the table of contents shows all "2"s for the page numbers. If I close out of Preview and go past the table of contents, then select Print Preview, it's fine again. Any ideas why this would happen? |
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Hi Kim
Kim wrote: I'm working in Word 2002 ... Reading Layout view isn't an option. Any other ideas? Sounds like a general timing issue: when you display the TOC, Word is not able to tell you the correct page number, simply because it's not finished doing the pagination. Waiting a tad bit longer before switching to PrintPreview; or hitting CTRL-END (moves cursor to the end), then switching, might do the trick. HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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