Table of contents

[Mark Berger]

I received a document from someone else that I need to work on. The table of
contents originally looked like this:

2 Heading level 1 text ...........................................1
2.1 Heading level 2 text.........................................1
2.1.2 Heading level 3 text .....................................3
2.1.2.1 Heading level 4 text...................................3


After making changes, I update the TOC and the formatting changes it to:

2 Heading level 1 text ...........................................1
2.1 Heading level 2 text.........................................1
2.1.2 .......................................Heading level 3 text
3
2.1.2.1 ....................................Heading level 4 text
3

It looks like the heading is going where the page number should go, and the
page number is pushed down to the next line. This happens on heading levels
3 and higher.

Any ideas on what is going on? I deleted the TOC and created a new one, but
the same ugly format comes back. I tried deleting some tab stops on the
heading styles, but thad didn't help either. I searched the Microsoft site,
but couldn't find a solution. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Mark Berger]

Well, I fixed it, but I still don't understand what the problem was. I
copied and pasted all of the text into a new document and created a new
table of contents in that document. The table of contents works fine now. I
did have to spend some time getting the format of the new document to match
that of the other one though (title page, headers, footers, etc.).

I'm still interested in knowing what the problem was if anyone happens to
know.

Mark