weird formatting of TOC

[ken]

I've been working with a larger document (> 500 pages) and a long table of
contents 8 pages. Just today I ran into a problem where the TOC has a
number of lines with incomplete lines from the headers in each section.

Example; here is a sample of a heading 3 section on page 1

1.1.1 Utilizing Higher-Order Functions in Text Processing

Here is the entry in the TOC
1.1.1 U.........................................1

There a number of lines in the TOC like this.

HELP, I need to get my document back to normal.

TIA,
Ken Erickson

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Ken,

Did you do ANY kind of editing with these headings? If I had to guess, I'd
say either
1) The hidden bookmark the TOC generates no longer points to the entire
Heading OR
2) some kind of paragraph mark has been inserted after the first character

What happens if you delete the TOC and insert a new one?

I've been working with a larger document (> 500 pages) and a long table of
contents 8 pages. Just today I ran into a problem where the TOC has a
number of lines with incomplete lines from the headers in each section.

Example; here is a sample of a heading 3 section on page 1

1.1.1 Utilizing Higher-Order Functions in Text Processing

Here is the entry in the TOC
1.1.1 U.........................................1

There a number of lines in the TOC like this.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[ken]

Cindy,

I found the problem. I had added a number of cross-reference entries to the
headings in my document. I then did a update entire TOC and that's where
the problem showed up. I resolved the problem by moving the XE entries to
the following line after the heading line. Problem solved. Weird how just
the first letter of the line would show up and the rest blank. Sounds like
a bug to me.

Thanks again,
Ken Erickson

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Ken,

I resolved the problem by moving the XE entries to
the following line after the heading line. Problem solved. Weird how just
the first letter of the line would show up and the rest blank. Sounds like
a bug to me.

Yes, I'd say so... You have Word 97, I'd guess?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[ken]

No, I'm running Office 2000 Pro. Is there something that I can switch
on/off to change this behavior?

-Ken Erickson