Hi Dave,
The TOC is a field. You can see the "Peeking behind the curtain" section in
http://word.mvps.org/faQs/Formatting/TOCSwitches.htm
For your convenience, I quote that part here,
"To understand how to use these switches, you should first examine the TOC
field inserted by default. To see this field, select your table of contents
and press Alt+F9 to display the field code. If you have not changed any of
the settings in the initial Table of Contents dialog (that is, you chose a
table of contents based on Headings 1¨C3, including page numbers,
right-aligned and with period leaders), you will see the following field:
{ TOC \o "1-3" \h \z }
Note: The \h and \z switches were introduced in Word 2000 and will not be
seen in TOC fields in Word 97 or earlier.
The \o switch with its argument "1-3" tells Word to use Headings 1-3 to
build the table of contents. The page number settings are defaults, so no
switches are needed to tell Word what to do; switches are needed only when
you want to override the defaults.
The \h switch means ¡°hyperlink.¡± It¡¯s what makes each entire table of
contents entry (and not just the page number) into a hyperlink to the
associated heading.
Note: If you find this behavior inconvenient or annoying (as many users
apparently do, although the feature was introduced because it was much
requested, and most people want it), you can change it by deleting this
switch and updating the field. Doing that will not affect the page numbers,
which will still be hyperlinks.
The \z switch hides tab leaders and page numbers in Web Layout view; it is
used in conjunction with the \h switch because TOCs for Web pages need to
have the entries hyperlinked (Web pages don¡¯t have numbered pages)."
Regards,
Colbert
