John and Stefan;

a G'day to you mates...

Things are a little more complicated than I thought.
I am in Europe (the Netherlands) working for an international firm.
We write Reports in Dutch and in (UK) English.

Normally our users have the Dutch Locale in WinXP.
The ListSeparator in the Dutch locale is ';'

Sometimes our users need to switch to the UK/US English locale; because
they need the English decimal point.

And now things get interesting.
If I generate a TOC-field (through Insert > Reference etc) AND leave
'Heading 5' out of the TOC; Word gives me a TOC-field that looks like:
{TOC \o "1-4" \t "Heading 6!1! Heading 7!2! Heading 8!3! Heading 9!4"}
where ! is the ListSeparator in my Regional settings.

Now suppose that is ";"
{TOC \o "1-4" \t "Heading 6;1; Heading 7;2; Heading 8;3; Heading 9;4"}
will be OK in ANY document language IF the Locale is Dutch.
It will NOT be OK in ANY document language if the Locale is English:
Word-TOC won't find the "Headings-part"

Luckily enough Microsoft suplies a Registry-fix for this problem in
Word2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302865/EN-US/
I have taken the liberty of changing the fix for WordXP.

But now things are getting messy. Microsoft says in above KB-item:
"The AlternateTOCDelimiter registry key causes Microsoft Word to
interpret the table of contents delimiter based on the language
formatting of the surrounding text instead of from Control Panel."

After extreme testing I can confirm this is true for WordXP as well.
Without the fix: the TOC-separator needs to be the same as the Locale
ListSeparator.
There is no single TOC-separator that is valid for both an UK/US AND an
NL locale.

With the Fix: there is no single TOC-separator that is valid in both an
UK AND an NL document-language.

So I am between the hammer and the anvil.

Ah well... I'll set up a dual TOC:
one {TOC \o "1-4"} for Chapters and
one {TOC \o "6-9"} for Appendices.

Sigh...

regards,
peter

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