Glad we could be helpful.

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"Richard Bates" wrote in message
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Thanks, Suzanne. That website pointed me in the right direction: it looks
as though there was a problem with the outline numbering in the body of the
document. I re-formatted the numbering in all my headings and created a new
TOC and that seems to have done the trick.

Richard.

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

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"Richard Bates" wrote in
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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.