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Default Table of contents picking up body text

This may be the fault of using the Document Map. You'll find some fixes for
that issue here, including a quick way to remove outline levels from body
text, and a quick way to exclude that text from the TOC.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/DocumentMap.htm


On 9/1/06 2:30 PM, "Larissa25" wrote:

My friend created a document in Word 2003 with a table of contents after her
title page that keeps picking up body text. I've looked everywhere in her
paragraphs that appear in the TOC for formatting issues, but they all show
body text as their heading style. Her TOC settings are only set to pick up
Heading 1, 2 and 3. She has formatting that changes every few paragraphs
(headings, body text, quotes, long quotes, etc.), so I can't change the
entire document and then reformat the headings because it would create more
work than it saves. Any idea what's going on? I feel like I've looked
everywhere for this problem.

Also, the option to only update the page numbers doesn't appear until after
I've done the first update of the entire field. Any ideas why? The TOC looks
all nice and pretty now, because she keeps sending it to me and I would fix
it in Word 2000 with the "update page numbers only", but I'd like to fix this
for her once and for all.
Thanks in advance,
-Larissa


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