[Mares]

In the document, the long heading was broken up with a soft return, so I
thought that was the issue and replaced it with a space. When compiled, it
continues to come into the TOC as two seperate entries w/page numbers.

Any Ideas?

[Stefan Blom]

Is this long heading preceded by a page break? If so, the same style
will be applied to the actual page break, which could cause the
heading to be duplicated in the TOC (especially if there is at least
one space preceding the break). You can work around this by removing
the page break and then formatting the heading as "Page break before"
(Format | Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab).

Note: To see page breaks, paragraph marks, and other nonprinting
characters, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8; for more, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Mares" wrote in message
...
In the document, the long heading was broken up with a soft return,
so I
thought that was the issue and replaced it with a space. When
compiled, it
continues to come into the TOC as two seperate entries w/page
numbers.

Any Ideas?

[Mares]

Unfortunately, the heading is not preceded by a page break, just another
paragraph with a different style.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Is this long heading preceded by a page break? If so, the same style
will be applied to the actual page break, which could cause the
heading to be duplicated in the TOC (especially if there is at least
one space preceding the break). You can work around this by removing
the page break and then formatting the heading as "Page break before"
(Format | Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab).

Note: To see page breaks, paragraph marks, and other nonprinting
characters, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8; for more, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Mares" wrote in message
...
In the document, the long heading was broken up with a soft return,
so I
thought that was the issue and replaced it with a space. When
compiled, it
continues to come into the TOC as two seperate entries w/page
numbers.

Any Ideas?

[Stefan Blom]

What happens if you copy the text (but not the TOC and the final
paragraph mark) into a new document? Will the TOC update correctly
then?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Mares" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, the heading is not preceded by a page break, just
another
paragraph with a different style.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Is this long heading preceded by a page break? If so, the same
style
will be applied to the actual page break, which could cause the
heading to be duplicated in the TOC (especially if there is at
least
one space preceding the break). You can work around this by
removing
the page break and then formatting the heading as "Page break
before"
(Format | Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab).

Note: To see page breaks, paragraph marks, and other nonprinting
characters, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8; for more, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NonPrintChars.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Mares" wrote in message
...
In the document, the long heading was broken up with a soft
return,
so I
thought that was the issue and replaced it with a space. When
compiled, it
continues to come into the TOC as two seperate entries w/page
numbers.

Any Ideas?