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Duplicate headings appearing in TOC
Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of
Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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"Table of Contents" should not be included at all. Make sure that that
heading is in a style that is not included in the TOC (I usually define a new style, based on Heading 1, called TOC Head). As for "Introduction," if there is a manual page break immediately before the heading, which inherits the Heading 1 style, you would get a blank entry before "Introduction," but I wouldn't expect to get it repeated unless there is a TC field in the heading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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I too am facing a similar problem.
In my document, few headings are being repeated in the TOC. Before the heading, there is a manual page break, but in the TOC, there is no blank entry before the main entry - the entry is just getting repeated twice. I have another exactly same document where no duplication occurs. Please help!! -- Thanks! Shubho "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Table of Contents" should not be included at all. Make sure that that heading is in a style that is not included in the TOC (I usually define a new style, based on Heading 1, called TOC Head). As for "Introduction," if there is a manual page break immediately before the heading, which inherits the Heading 1 style, you would get a blank entry before "Introduction," but I wouldn't expect to get it repeated unless there is a TC field in the heading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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Press the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to display nonprinting
marks. You'll probably see at least one dot (·), which represents a space character, or an arrow pointing to the right, which means a tab character, immediately to the left of the page break. This can cause the heading text to repeat in the table of contents. Delete the characters and update the TOC. Note that it is better to avoid manual page breaks and instead add "Page break before" formatting as needed. You'll find this option on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box (FormatParagraph). If a particular heading should always start on a new page, you should add "Page break before" to the style. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Shubho" wrote in message ... I too am facing a similar problem. In my document, few headings are being repeated in the TOC. Before the heading, there is a manual page break, but in the TOC, there is no blank entry before the main entry - the entry is just getting repeated twice. I have another exactly same document where no duplication occurs. Please help!! -- Thanks! Shubho "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Table of Contents" should not be included at all. Make sure that that heading is in a style that is not included in the TOC (I usually define a new style, based on Heading 1, called TOC Head). As for "Introduction," if there is a manual page break immediately before the heading, which inherits the Heading 1 style, you would get a blank entry before "Introduction," but I wouldn't expect to get it repeated unless there is a TC field in the heading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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Duplicate headings appearing in TOC
I was having a similar problem (duplicate TOC headings due to page breaks),
but after fixing the breaks, I found the problem returned when I added a graphic to the otherwise blank page (preceding the page with the heading). Though it pained me to do so, I managed to fix the TOC problem by adding blank lines behind the graphic. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Press the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to display nonprinting marks. You'll probably see at least one dot (·), which represents a space character, or an arrow pointing to the right, which means a tab character, immediately to the left of the page break. This can cause the heading text to repeat in the table of contents. Delete the characters and update the TOC. Note that it is better to avoid manual page breaks and instead add "Page break before" formatting as needed. You'll find this option on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box (FormatParagraph). If a particular heading should always start on a new page, you should add "Page break before" to the style. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Shubho" wrote in message ... I too am facing a similar problem. In my document, few headings are being repeated in the TOC. Before the heading, there is a manual page break, but in the TOC, there is no blank entry before the main entry - the entry is just getting repeated twice. I have another exactly same document where no duplication occurs. Please help!! -- Thanks! Shubho "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Table of Contents" should not be included at all. Make sure that that heading is in a style that is not included in the TOC (I usually define a new style, based on Heading 1, called TOC Head). As for "Introduction," if there is a manual page break immediately before the heading, which inherits the Heading 1 style, you would get a blank entry before "Introduction," but I wouldn't expect to get it repeated unless there is a TC field in the heading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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Duplicate headings appearing in TOC
If you pressed Enter at the beginning of a heading to get a paragraph into
which to insert the graphic, then at worst you might have gotten the graphic into the bookmark for the heading. At best, you have inserted the graphic in (or anchored to) a paragraph in the heading style. The simple solution is to change the style of the text paragraph in which the graphic sits (or to which it is anchored) to Normal. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Spencer" wrote in message ... I was having a similar problem (duplicate TOC headings due to page breaks), but after fixing the breaks, I found the problem returned when I added a graphic to the otherwise blank page (preceding the page with the heading). Though it pained me to do so, I managed to fix the TOC problem by adding blank lines behind the graphic. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Press the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar to display nonprinting marks. You'll probably see at least one dot (·), which represents a space character, or an arrow pointing to the right, which means a tab character, immediately to the left of the page break. This can cause the heading text to repeat in the table of contents. Delete the characters and update the TOC. Note that it is better to avoid manual page breaks and instead add "Page break before" formatting as needed. You'll find this option on the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog box (FormatParagraph). If a particular heading should always start on a new page, you should add "Page break before" to the style. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Shubho" wrote in message ... I too am facing a similar problem. In my document, few headings are being repeated in the TOC. Before the heading, there is a manual page break, but in the TOC, there is no blank entry before the main entry - the entry is just getting repeated twice. I have another exactly same document where no duplication occurs. Please help!! -- Thanks! Shubho "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Table of Contents" should not be included at all. Make sure that that heading is in a style that is not included in the TOC (I usually define a new style, based on Heading 1, called TOC Head). As for "Introduction," if there is a manual page break immediately before the heading, which inherits the Heading 1 style, you would get a blank entry before "Introduction," but I wouldn't expect to get it repeated unless there is a TC field in the heading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Lynn" wrote in message ... Whenever I update the TOC in a particular document, it enters the "Table of Contents" and "Introduction" headers twice. I end up manually deleting the duplicates. I noticed that it doesn't happen in another document, so I tend to think that it has to do with the original setup of the TOC (I did not create the original document). Any suggestions? |
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