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Ravabelli - 12 Aug 2004 10:52 GMT
Whenever I update my TOC I have some lines (with
identical style to others) lose their indentation.

e.g.  section A........................1
     section B 2
     section C........................3

Where the numbers above represent page numbers. I've
checked the styles and reset them to make sure they are
standard. Any help? It's driving me mad!
Ravabelli - 12 Aug 2004 11:10 GMT
I should mention I am using Word 2003 on XP
Chad DeMeyer - 12 Aug 2004 18:02 GMT
Ravabelli,

Try this: Alt + F9 to display field codes.  In your TOC field add a switch
at the end (separated from previous switches by a space): "\w"
Alt + F9 to display field results, then select the TOC and F9 to update the
field.  Choose "Update entire table of contents".  Does that fix it?

If it does, here is why: for some oblique reason, if this switch is omitted,
Word decides to add its own arbitrary tab sets to each level of a TOC,
REGARDLESS of how the TOC styles are defined.  The "\w" switch effectively
suppresses this behavior, so each line in your TOC will tab all the way to
right-aligned tab set for page numbers as you expect.

Regards,
Chad

> I should mention I am using Word 2003 on XP
Ravabelli - 13 Aug 2004 12:05 GMT
Chad

Thanks for the advice but this doesn't appear to have any
effect.

My TOC code is now: {TOC \O "1-3" \H \Z \U \W}

Cheers
Rav
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Stefan Blom - 13 Aug 2004 12:42 GMT
Have you tried to select the table of contents and then to press
CTRL+Q, which resets paragraph formatting (including tabs) to that of
the style definition?

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> Whenever I update my TOC I have some lines (with
> identical style to others) lose their indentation.
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> checked the styles and reset them to make sure they are
> standard. Any help? It's driving me mad!
 
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