First heading appears twice in TOC !

[mscertified]

My very first heading (style Heading 2) appears twice in my TOC. It defies
all attempts to fix it. I deleted ity completely, it disappeared from TOC,
reinserted it - it appears twice. Am I seeing things or is this really
happening?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Any chance you have it directly marked for inclusion as well as marked for
inclusion as a heading style? How are you generating your TOC? Could you
type the field code here? (Alt-F9 to display) Which version of Word?
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is there a manual page break before the first Heading 2? This will cause the
heading to be repeated. Apply "Page break before" to the paragraph/style
instead.

 

[mscertified]

That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not exactly. A manual page break acquires the style of the following
paragraph.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.
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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Charles

No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.

I agree with the "page break before", but still consider this behaviour
a bug (or a least a bad design decision, if it was a concious decision
at all ).

Greetinx
Robert

 

[Charles Kenyon]

The thing you need to understand what is happening is that in Word
structure, the page break is not a type of paragraph mark but rather is
inside the following paragraph and a part of it. This isn't logical, but it
is how Word is built.
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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Charles

The thing you need to understand what is happening is that in Word
structure, the page break is not a type of paragraph mark but rather is
inside the following paragraph and a part of it.

I see that, and that's the main reason why we all advice users to avoid
those breaks (typically, in long documents before Headings). It's still
pretty counter-intuitive why the PageBreak shouldn't be a ParagraphBreak
automatically.

This isn't logical, but it is how Word is built.

Full ack.

Greetinx
Robert

 

[Brian]

This constantly drives me nuts. Why would I want to write a paragraph using
styles after it? This is really a problem when i edit a big document and
delete a section. For some retarded reason, Word thinks I want to keep the
format of the section I deleted, not the section above it that I want to keep.

 

[Stefan Blom]

The issue you are describing is unrelated to the problem with page breaks
discussed earlier in this thread.

The reason why sections behave the way you have noticed is that a section
break stores the formatting of the *preceding* section. When the break is
deleted, the formatting of the next section break is being applied.

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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