[Graham Mayor]

You have no control whatsoever how a user views your document. Microsoft
does not force anyone to use the Reading layout. It may be the default, but
like a lot of defaults, it can be turned off - and many users do.

The document will reflow to the dictates of the current printer driver and
if the recipient has a different printer driver (which seems very likely)
and that changes the page order, then yes the TOC will require updating. If
you want a document to be viewed as you intend, then you need PDF format.
That's what PDF does.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



yellowhouse1976 wrote:
Hi

Say you have a TOC in a Word document which you plan to email to
someone, when that someone opens the document MS forces them to look
it in the default Reading View. When you click escape to look at the
document in a 'normal view' the TOC page numbers all change to 3.
Forcing you to update the TOC to get the actual page numbers back.
Is there any way to safe guard this not happening when you send a
document by email. I am unable to convert the document to PDF as it
is not an acceptable format for the person I am sending it to. It
seems very unprofessional to expect the person receiving the document
to update the TOC and if they dont know to do this then they will
assume the document is incorrect.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Jude