See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/toc/CreateATOC.html for the basics of
TOC creation in Word.
Note that when many paragraphs occur in the TOC, for no apparent reason, it
is often caused by the \u switch in the TOC field code. The switch adds any
paragraph that has an outline level defined. Delete it and then update the
TOC (see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/DocumentMap.htm).
See also
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TOCSwitches.htm.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Betsy" wrote in message
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I have a document that someone else created. I have to do a TOC. When I
insert one, all kinds of text from the body of the document appears. Is
there a way to un-code everything and start over with creating a toc by
re-coding all level 1, 2, and 3 words?