Where is my Table of Contents

[webtrained]

I had one but now it's gone. Has this ever happened to anyone? What
is the work around? Does it have something to do with my field display
settings? I must admit I was screwing around with them.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Well, I don't know of a field display setting that says to totally hide
fields. The TOC is a field. The entire TOC is one field so it can be deleted
in two keystrokes. You can insert a new one using Insert > Table of
Contents... http://addbalance.com/word/usersguide/complex_documents.htm.
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[Stefan Blom]

Do you see a field code such as { TOC \o "1-3" } instead of the
table of contents? Then you can press ALT+F9 to redisplay the
TOC.

 

[webtrained]

I did insert a new table and the Field Code would display. Then I
toggled it to display the TOC and everything disappeared.

I saved and closed and re-opened the document.
I played around with the view field settings for a while. Eventually
the table did display but how I got it to display is beyond me.

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

At the very least, you should be seeing an error message: "Error! No table
of contents entries found."

 

[Stefan Blom]

Does F9 (update field) make a difference?

 

[webtrained]

Thanks everyone for replying. I F9'ed and nothing happened and I never
saw an Error message. Then I remembered an old work around I was once
shown which was to select the entire document, except for the last para
mark, and paste it into a new document. After doing so, I set up my
TOC and it appeared. They lived happily ever after....for now.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Apparently there was some corruption in the document.

If you want to read more about corrupted documents and templates,
please see: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm