[Dan FANCHER]

I created a document in Word 2007 recently and emailed it to a few people for
their review. I had added a TOC using Heading 1 through Heading 3 styles.
Upon its return, I used Word's cool features to merge all the changes from
each of the reviewers. I ended up with an annoying result in the Table of
Contents. Some TOC entries begin at the right margin and then have the page
number at the left margin. The behavior is not consistent between the TOC
styles. For instance, the first five entries are level one entries. the
first entry is right-to-left (read: wrong), the next entry is left-to-right,
and the next three entries are right-to-left again.

If I open the styles pane, I can see two different TOC entries for each
level. One is TOC and the other is TOC+. I can update TOC 1 to Match
Selection and everything is fine--the document behaves correctly and the TOC
now looks correct with left-to-right layout--until the next time I update the
table.

I think that I have checked everything using the Style Inspector|reveal
formatting|distinguish Style Source. Nothing seems obvious.

The strangest thing and probably the lynchpin to solving my problem is that
the curly braces that distinguish the TOC field code are reversed! The
closing brace is on the left and the opening brace is on the right }TOC{

This one has had me scratching my head for a long time. Would be grateful
for anyone's ideas on this one.