Hi

Thanks for responding. I've made progress and if my stupid mistakes can help
anyone else out I'm confessing. Mind you I'm working with a document that I
inherit from a colleague.

"Stick" in the sense that I specify the TOC entries for the styles and the
levels I want, (Insert/Tables and Indexes/Table of Contents/Options) click
OK, and when I reopen the dialog box to specify the TOC entries they aren't
there. I've done this over and over. However, I missed noticing that while
I was defining the styles "Chapter Title" and Chapter Sub-title" the Header
1, Header 2 and Header 3 were already assigned to TOC 1, 2 and 3
respectively.

Next problem is said colleague defined Chapter Subtitle with left and right
indents that caused a single column of characters to be the TOC 2 entry.

Once I figured that out it's been working fine.

Thanks.


"Jezebel" wrote in message
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TOC function won't work at all. Is this because I don't have the .dot
file
for the file on my computer?
Every time I try to set TOC levels they don't "stick".

Stick in what sense? No, you don't need the DOT file on your computer.
Specify the TOC entries using styles with the levels you want (eg use
Heading 1, Heading 2, etc). Define the TOC styles to look the way you
want.
That's all there is for a vanilla TOC.


Colleague also tells me that the doc adds continuous section breaks for
no
reason that he can find. I don't know what his skill level is, but he
said
he was on phone with MS for 2 hours. Perhaps he simply has a
broken/buggy
template?

Word doesn't add section breaks for *no* reason. (The reason might be
obscure, but there will be one ... although it's not a problem I've ever
encountered.) Whatever the cause, it has nothing to do with his template.