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URGENT help needed, please - TOC disappeared
I'm using Word 2002 with Windows Millennium Edition.
At the final edit of a long project. TOC was coming out with the same page number for every entry, even after an "Update TOC" command. So I thought I would delete the whole thing (selected the TOC text, then Ctrl-X) and start over by re-generating the TOC. Tried an "InsertReferenceTOC" command, it asked me if I wanted to "replace the selected TOC" - said yes. And now there is NOTHING AT ALL for a TOC. Apparently, there is a "selected TOC" lurking somewhere. I can't find it, and can't generate another one. There is a blank page before the start of the document that I can't get rid of. Project deadline was three hours ago, and I'm holding up the whole works, printers and all. Can you help please??? |
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URGENT help needed, please - TOC disappeared
Do you have a backup?
-- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2002 with Windows Millennium Edition. At the final edit of a long project. TOC was coming out with the same page number for every entry, even after an "Update TOC" command. So I thought I would delete the whole thing (selected the TOC text, then Ctrl-X) and start over by re-generating the TOC. Tried an "InsertReferenceTOC" command, it asked me if I wanted to "replace the selected TOC" - said yes. And now there is NOTHING AT ALL for a TOC. Apparently, there is a "selected TOC" lurking somewhere. I can't find it, and can't generate another one. There is a blank page before the start of the document that I can't get rid of. Project deadline was three hours ago, and I'm holding up the whole works, printers and all. Can you help please??? |
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URGENT help needed, please - TOC disappeared
I closed out everything and went back to a "repaired" copy. That allowed me
to generate a new TOC, but haven't been able to see if the page numbers will "hold" now. Spending time on trying to figure out why the header has now disappeared, and the footer (page number only) won't respond to "start at 1" command. Will have to fix the header-and-footer problem (no idea how, when Word will not listen to what I'm telling it to do), then try again with the TOC. I have never had so much trouble with a "finished" document. It's a nightmare and I'm at the end of my rope - and out of time. (sorry for the rant....) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have a backup? -- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2002 with Windows Millennium Edition. At the final edit of a long project. TOC was coming out with the same page number for every entry, even after an "Update TOC" command. So I thought I would delete the whole thing (selected the TOC text, then Ctrl-X) and start over by re-generating the TOC. Tried an "InsertReferenceTOC" command, it asked me if I wanted to "replace the selected TOC" - said yes. And now there is NOTHING AT ALL for a TOC. Apparently, there is a "selected TOC" lurking somewhere. I can't find it, and can't generate another one. There is a blank page before the start of the document that I can't get rid of. Project deadline was three hours ago, and I'm holding up the whole works, printers and all. Can you help please??? |
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URGENT help needed, please - TOC disappeared
You might try using Open and Repair if it's available in your version of
Word. If not, treat the document as corrupt; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I closed out everything and went back to a "repaired" copy. That allowed me to generate a new TOC, but haven't been able to see if the page numbers will "hold" now. Spending time on trying to figure out why the header has now disappeared, and the footer (page number only) won't respond to "start at 1" command. Will have to fix the header-and-footer problem (no idea how, when Word will not listen to what I'm telling it to do), then try again with the TOC. I have never had so much trouble with a "finished" document. It's a nightmare and I'm at the end of my rope - and out of time. (sorry for the rant....) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have a backup? -- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2002 with Windows Millennium Edition. At the final edit of a long project. TOC was coming out with the same page number for every entry, even after an "Update TOC" command. So I thought I would delete the whole thing (selected the TOC text, then Ctrl-X) and start over by re-generating the TOC. Tried an "InsertReferenceTOC" command, it asked me if I wanted to "replace the selected TOC" - said yes. And now there is NOTHING AT ALL for a TOC. Apparently, there is a "selected TOC" lurking somewhere. I can't find it, and can't generate another one. There is a blank page before the start of the document that I can't get rid of. Project deadline was three hours ago, and I'm holding up the whole works, printers and all. Can you help please??? |
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URGENT help needed, please - TOC disappeared
I'll give that a try. Thank you for your help!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might try using Open and Repair if it's available in your version of Word. If not, treat the document as corrupt; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I closed out everything and went back to a "repaired" copy. That allowed me to generate a new TOC, but haven't been able to see if the page numbers will "hold" now. Spending time on trying to figure out why the header has now disappeared, and the footer (page number only) won't respond to "start at 1" command. Will have to fix the header-and-footer problem (no idea how, when Word will not listen to what I'm telling it to do), then try again with the TOC. I have never had so much trouble with a "finished" document. It's a nightmare and I'm at the end of my rope - and out of time. (sorry for the rant....) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you have a backup? -- 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. "Laura79" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2002 with Windows Millennium Edition. At the final edit of a long project. TOC was coming out with the same page number for every entry, even after an "Update TOC" command. So I thought I would delete the whole thing (selected the TOC text, then Ctrl-X) and start over by re-generating the TOC. Tried an "InsertReferenceTOC" command, it asked me if I wanted to "replace the selected TOC" - said yes. And now there is NOTHING AT ALL for a TOC. Apparently, there is a "selected TOC" lurking somewhere. I can't find it, and can't generate another one. There is a blank page before the start of the document that I can't get rid of. Project deadline was three hours ago, and I'm holding up the whole works, printers and all. Can you help please??? |
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