By "blank lines," do you mean "empty paragraphs"? Inserting at least (and
usually at most) one empty paragraph between the TOC field and anything that
comes after it is usually required.

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> I have a Next Page section break placed a few lines after
> the Table of Contents. Whenever I update the table (not
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> Thanks!