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Subject: Table of Contents entries in MS Word
Summary: Problems using TOC in MS Word.
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Date: 21 Aug 90 12:35:21 GMT
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I have a problem with using the Table of Contents entries in MS Word.
First let me describe what I want to accomplish.  In my document I need
a normal type of table of contents (I use up to 4 levels of headings, i.e.,
.c1. through .c4.), a list of figures (I use .c9.), a list of tables (I use
.c8.) and a new type of list, a list of what we call requirements.  I have
been able to do the first three of these items (normal table of contents,
list of figures, and list of tables) with the Table of Contents
commands in the past, with no problems. I first run the TOC command for my
list of figures (specifying only level 9), then run the TOC command for
my list of tables (specifying only level 8), etc.

Now I am trying to compile a list of requirements (our company writes
"Requirements" documents for telecommunications manufacturers) in the
same way.  A "requirement" may be a sentence or even a short paragraph.
I used .c7. in front of each requirement like I have done for other
lists (list of figures, etc), and then run the TOC command for level 7 only.
Word compiles a nice list of "requirements" for me, with one little problem,
some of the requirements are missing!!
I know some are missing because we found a way that we can number each 
requirement sequentially.  There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which ones
are missing.  For example in the document I am working with now, requirements
8, 13, 25, 39, 52, 115, 117, 119 are missing (a total of 151 requirements).
I have tried using level 6 and level 9 TOC entries and it appears (I haven't
checked real closely) that the same numbered requirements are missing.
Is there some problem with MS Word TOC command handling that much text?
(there ends up being about 12 pages of requirements, single spaced,
10 point New Century Schoolbook font)

Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?  It makes me worry a little
about the TOC command in general - maybe some entries in my regular Table
of Contents are missing and I don't even know it.
I could obviously work around the problem by doing some copying and pasting
after the document is done to put in the missing entries  --  but I find
this problem mystifying and troublesome. I'd rather it be automatic.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me on this problem.

Janice Rathmann
Bellcore