When I look at this document, the page where the "Part I" heading appears does
in fact claim to be page 2 -- and so does the page after it. That's despite the
fact that each page is in a section marked to start page numbers at 1. This is
abnormal behavior, possibly due to corruption in one or more section breaks.
Looking at the document in Normal View, there are many occurrences of a page
break, a continuous section break, and another page break without any
intervening characters or paragraph marks. There's no reason for all this
complication where either a plain page break or a single next-page section break
would do. You need a new section _only_ when something stored at the section
level (page numbering, header or footer formatting, or page margins or
orientation) needs to change.
If you clean up the breaks
(
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...thSections.htm) and reset the
starting page numbers in the new sections, the page numbers and TOC will update
correctly.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:36 -0400, wrote:
I've been fighting with a Table of Contents problem that I just cannot
figure out.
This is a document in Word 2002 (used within Windows XP). When its ToC is
updated it consistently gives the wrong page for one entry.
I created a skeleton version of the document, replacing actual text with the
word "text" to keep things simple, and placed this document at:
http://www.hold.orthohelp.com/problemToC.DOC
The problem has to do with the ToC entry for "Part I A Little History"
which the ToC consistently shows as being on page 2, even though it actually
is on page 1.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? I've looked at the show/hide
codes but just cannot figure out why it is doing this. Any help would be
appreciated.
Jeff