Word's TOC and INDEX fields (among others) do not see anything in the
drawing layer, which includes text boxes. If you cannot switch from text
boxes to other formatting, then use TC fields in the paragraphs to which the
text boxes are anchored.

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"Austin Powers" wrote in message
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Unfortunatelt, when I convert them to frames the formatting goes to hell
and
that simply is going to be WAY too time consuming.

Is this an undocumented feature or a bug (because I sure didn't find this
mentioned in the help)?

After 9 1/2 hours, yesterdya, of trying to figure this out I gave up and
asked the question here. 9 1/2 hours!!!!!

Peter



"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
Use frames instead of textboxes.



"Austin Powers" wrote in message
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OK, this is driving me insane.

My document has 2 text boxes per page (imagine two PowerPoint slides
per
page).

I want ot be able to create a table of contents, but if the /TC field
is
in one of the text boxes then it will not be found when I creat the
table
of contents.

How do I get around this?

Thanks.