Daiya's reply has solved your problem, I think, but to answer your original
question, the switch you ask about wouldn't help you at all because it would
insert a line break in the middle of the TOC entry. If you put it at the end
of your TC field, it would insert a line break between the entry itself and
the page number. What it's intended to do is break long titles in the same
way that they are broken in the document, meaning that the line break is
usually in the middle of the entry, but a better approach to this is usually
to set a right indent for the TOC style (leaving the right tab stop for the
page number at the right margin), so that the entry wraps short of the page
number.

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"Paul Terrano" wrote in message
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One of the {TOC} switches is \x which is said to preserve a
newline character. I am formatting a long toc with TC fields and
I would like a blank line in the toc periodically.

Where in the TC does the newline character go, is it enter or
shift-enter and does the resulting empty line follow or precede
the entry that contains the newline character? I can get the
effect by entering a return manually, but this method will not
survive an update.

I did not find any definitive statements on this subject when I
searched the microsoft.public.word.* newsgroups on Google.