Thank you Ed: that is a very clear answer! Luckily my document is not that
large and doesn't need a complex table of content. The advantages of
preventing layout problems that I encountered in Word prevail over the
disadvantage of not being able to generate a table of content automatically,
so I'll use Publisher this time.

This 'Edit story in Word' doesn't offer much. All my text blocks come from
Word documents. I just have to strip them from layout and then I can copy
them into the Publisher text blocks.

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Loes Weber was very recently
heard to utter:
I went through the whole thread and found no reply on how to create a
table of contents other that manually.

That's because there IS no way to create a table of contents other that
manually.

Where do I find the "Edit Story in Word" feature in Publisher?

Right click Change Text Edit Story in Microsoft Word.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher