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I have a document with multiple sections. I am trying to create a Table of
Contents for it based on the Heading 1 style. However, for some sections,
when I try to place a Heading 1 style on a single paragraph, the number of
instances of the style increases by 2 (or more.) This creates blank spaces
and odd tabs in the automatically generated table of contents.

The sections are separated by a section break (next page) and the paragraphs
to which I am attempting to apply the formatting are the first paragraphs in
the section.

I am using Word 2003 SP1 on Windows XP Pro.