TOC style applied to entire section??

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My first time inserting a TOC (Word 2002). I've got the styles defined and
applied. I've got the TOC field inserted and it looks pretty much okay.
But it looks like when I inserted the field, _everything_ in that section
got tagged with TOC1 style! Is this normal behavior? Or did I do something
incorrectly?

Ed
 
Are you saying that everything in the TOC field is TOC 1 or that other parts
of your document (outside the field) have been tagged as TOC 1?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi, Suzanne.
other parts
of your document (outside the field) have been tagged as TOC 1?
Click to expand...
Everything else in that section that was originally Normal style, including
a two-cell table, were tagged as TOC1.

Now, though, after I've played with formatting, etc, to modify the TOC1
style to how I want (couldn't see how to create a new TOC style), all that
is tagged TOC1 is the field. I don't know what I did - but it might come in
handy some day if I can ever figure it out!

Ed
 
Make sure that there is a paragraph break (not just a line break) separating
the TOC and the rest of the text and that there are paragraph breaks in the
rest of the text. If the whole thing were in one paragraph...

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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No, it was a header on top of the page "Table of Contents", a paragraph
break, a two-cell table with "Section" in the left cell and "Page" in the
right cell, and at least one more paragraph. The first time also gave me
"Table of contents(continued)" on the next page as a result of inserting the
TOC field.

Ed
 
Are you working with a premade template? These issues sound like what you
would encounter in this case. The header on the next page is something that
has to have been saved in the template. It also sounds as if the Section and
Page table was intended for creating a manual TOC; inserting a TOC field was
probably not envisioned in the template designer's design.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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