Table of Contents

[Me]

Confusion reigns. I am inserting a table of contents
(using Styles). Most of the table is ok, except for some
of the entries, which align the wrong way around (i.e.
instead of

[Heading #] [Heading Name] [Page #]

I get

[Page #] [Heading Name] [Heading #]

This document was originally created with MS Word Arabic,
so it might relate to that, but I have changed the
language settings, the text direction and everything else
I could think of in both the Heading Style and the TOC
Style - nothing works! As stated, this problem does not
occur for all the entries in the TOC.

Any ideas?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Me,

Almost certainly related to the document having been created
in Arabic (right-to-left). A couple of things to try occur
to me:

1. Delete the TOC field and have Word create a new one (or
copy what's between the { brackets }, delete the field,
press Ctrl+F9 to insert a new pair of brackets, then paste)

2. If that doesn't work, try copying everything EXCEPT the
last paragraph mark (and except any section breaks) into a
new document.

Confusion reigns. I am inserting a table of contents
(using Styles). Most of the table is ok, except for some
of the entries, which align the wrong way around (i.e.
instead of

[Heading #] [Heading Name] [Page #]

I get

[Page #] [Heading Name] [Heading #]

This document was originally created with MS Word Arabic,
so it might relate to that, but I have changed the
language settings, the text direction and everything else
I could think of in both the Heading Style and the TOC
Style - nothing works! As stated, this problem does not
occur for all the entries in the TOC.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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