I have an existing document that I want to add a TOC to. The entire
doc is currently normal, and has several continous section break so
that I can have different headers for different sections.

I would like the TOC to not include text that is 'normal' and only
include text in 'heading 1, 2,...' however, when I added a TOC, it is
including entire paragraphs. How can I do this?

Thanks.

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I have an existing document that I want to add a TOC to. The entire
doc is currently normal, and has several continous section break so
that I can have different headers for different sections.

I would like the TOC to not include text that is 'normal' and only
include text in 'heading 1, 2,...' however, when I added a TOC, it is
including entire paragraphs. How can I do this?

Thanks.

Make sure that you have indeed applied the Heading 1 (or 2...) style to only
those headings you want in the TOC, not to a complete body text paragraph.

For some info on TOC, see the "Table of Contents" heading near the bottom
at:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/...gExplained.htm
and for more info, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TOCSwitches.htm

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Body Text! That is what I was missing. It was not listed in my style
sheet so I was using normal. Switching to Body text corrected the
issue for me.

Thanks.

The TOC should not be including anything in Normal style, however.

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Body Text! That is what I was missing. It was not listed in my style
sheet so I was using normal. Switching to Body text corrected the
issue for me.

Thanks.

The root of you problem is probably the outline level setting, in
FormatParagraph. Applied in this manner, as direct formatting, the
outline level setting can certainly add paragraphs to the table of
contents (the Document Map contributes to this problem -- see:
http://daiya.mvps.org/docmap.htm).

Applying the Body Text style then solved the problem, because applying
a paragraph style reverts text to the settings of that style. Note
that a different way to get rid of direct paragraph formatting from
the selection is to press Ctrl+Q.

Alternatively, you can prevent the TOC from including paragraphs with
outline level formatting: Press Alt+F9 to show field codes, delete the
\u switch from the TOC field, press F9 to update, and finally press
Alt+F9 again to hide field codes.

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Body Text! That is what I was missing. It was not listed in my
style
sheet so I was using normal. Switching to Body text corrected the
issue for me.

Thanks.