[Peter A]

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says...
I have a document that someone else created. I have to do a TOC. When I
insert one, all kinds of text from the body of the document appears. Is
there a way to un-code everything and start over with creating a toc by
re-coding all level 1, 2, and 3 words?


Is your TOC based on heading levels? That's the default, so it probably
is. You can turn on the style area (Tools, Options, View tab, set Style
area width to 0) then go thru the doc and remove heading styles
(Heading 1, Heading 2, etc) from anything you don;t want in the TOC.

This is for Word 2003.

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Peter Aitken
Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
www.tech-word.com