My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

Any chance you have it directly marked for inclusion as well as marked for
inclusion as a heading style? How are you generating your TOC? Could you
type the field code here? (Alt-F9 to display) Which version of Word?
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My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

Is there a manual page break before the first Heading 2? This will cause the
heading to be repeated. Apply "Page break before" to the paragraph/style
instead.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Is there a manual page break before the first Heading 2? This will cause the
heading to be repeated. Apply "Page break before" to the paragraph/style
instead.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

Not exactly. A manual page break acquires the style of the following
paragraph.

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Words into Type
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Is there a manual page break before the first Heading 2? This will cause
the
heading to be repeated. Apply "Page break before" to the paragraph/style
instead.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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newsgroup so
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It
defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from
TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Is there a manual page break before the first Heading 2? This will cause
the
heading to be repeated. Apply "Page break before" to the paragraph/style
instead.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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so
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It
defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from
TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.

I agree with the "page break before", but still consider this behaviour
a bug (or a least a bad design decision, if it was a concious decision
at all :-)).

Greetinx
Robert
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The thing you need to understand what is happening is that in Word
structure, the page break is not a type of paragraph mark but rather is
inside the following paragraph and a part of it. This isn't logical, but it
is how Word is built.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
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Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.

I agree with the "page break before", but still consider this behaviour a
bug (or a least a bad design decision, if it was a concious decision at
all :-)).

Greetinx
Robert
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