17 year Word veteran with TOC & Different First Page Footer Issue

[Jamie True]

I have a document put together this way:
Section 1 - Different First Page section type with a TOC with headers and
footers on the TOC pages, and a Next Page Section Break 4 lines after the end
of the TOC
Section 2 - No Different First Page, non-Same As Previous headers and
footers, and and a Next Page Section Break 4 lines after the end of the text
in the section
Sections 3-10 are set up just like Section 2.

When I update the TOC, it does not ask me anymore if I want to update just
the page numbers or the entire table, and just updates the entire TOC. At
the same time, it changes my Section 1 First Page footer and subsequent
Section 1 page footers into the footer from Section 2 (I lose my i, ii, iii
formatting in the process, ugh). AND my Section Break 4 lines down from the
TOC totally disappears.

What the heck is going on? Is it the type of Section Break that I'm using?
I've never had this happen before!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The symptoms point to a common problem. Although your section break appears
to be four lines down from the TOC, those four lines *and* the section break
are probably inside the TOC field. Alt+F9 to display the field code. Then
press Enter *outside* the field code to make sure you have at least one
paragraph clear below the TOC before inserting the section break. See if
that helps.