Table of contents leading characters

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Susan

I have a document in Word 97 in which I have placed a
table of contents using user defined styles as the TOC
fields. The entire table looks great except for one
heading which does not print the leading characters. It
is the same style as all the others and seems identical in
every way except for the non-printing characters. I've
updated the table several times and they still don't
print. Is there something simple I should be looking for
that I've missed?

Thanks!
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Does it help to select the text and press Ctrl+Q? If not, the style
definition may have been inadvertently modified. This can be a problem since
the tab is not actually part of the definition, so you can't define the
leader that way. Press Alt+F9 and examine the field code for a \p switch. If
it is present, delete it, since it doesn't work as advertised, anyway.
 
S

Susan

Suzanne,

Doing the Ctrl+Q didn't do anything. Alt+F9 didn't show
the \p switch, but when I did Alt+F9 again to bring back
the table, the leaders were there! Who knows....?
Anyway, now I know I can put them in without copying from
a working line and pasting them in (which works, but is a
stupid way to have to get it to work!)

Thanks!
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Whatever works! As MVP Bob Buckland has famously said, "Word rarely misses
an opportunity to perplex."
 
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