Have you seen http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TOCJasonTabs.htm ?

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"Richard Bates" wrote in message
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Sorry - correction:

If I access the tab settings through Format/Style/TOC2/Modify, the
dialogue box doesn't recognise the existence of the rogue tab. But it is
listed if I access tabs through Format/Tabs, so I can delete it that way -
or I can apply the format painter.

Richard.