A Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) forum. OfficeFrustration

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » OfficeFrustration forum » Microsoft Word » Formatting Long Documents
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read  

First heading appears twice in TOC !



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old October 25th, 2005, 08:30 PM
mscertified
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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?
  #2  
Old October 25th, 2005, 08:43 PM
Charles Kenyon
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
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?



  #3  
Old October 25th, 2005, 09:00 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
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?


  #4  
Old October 25th, 2005, 09:24 PM
mscertified
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
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?



  #5  
Old October 25th, 2005, 10:56 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
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?




  #6  
Old October 25th, 2005, 11:45 PM
Charles Kenyon
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
That was it! Thanks a lot.
Weird... is that considered a bug?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"mscertified" wrote in message
...
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?





  #7  
Old October 26th, 2005, 06:40 PM
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
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
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word
  #8  
Old October 27th, 2005, 06:15 AM
Charles Kenyon
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
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
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word



  #9  
Old October 27th, 2005, 05:38 PM
Robert M. Franz (RMF)
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
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
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word
  #10  
Old February 7th, 2008, 12:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Brian
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,396
Default First heading appears twice in TOC !

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.
--
~~ B.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

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.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
...
Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
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
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word




 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Removing number from Heading 1, leave rest alone Cueball Formatting Long Documents 1 September 20th, 2005 05:30 AM
Format between Styles Formatting Long Documents 5 September 20th, 2005 05:30 AM
Table headers Sam Hobbs New Users 11 December 20th, 2004 07:18 PM
Heading and Paragraph numbering JulieG General Discussion 2 July 13th, 2004 07:18 PM
Heading level 1 format when reaching double figures BobC General Discussion 2 July 7th, 2004 03:13 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:04 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 OfficeFrustration.
The comments are property of their posters.