Problem with "Editing and Updating a TOC"

After posting a message on how to create a TOC using just the first word of
some major paragraphs, I went out and bought the Microsoft book "Word 2003".
Page 598 worked me through creating a TOC using the manual "Mark Table of
Contents" method. But, after creating it, when I try to update it using the
"Editing and Updating a TOC" section of page 599, Word tells me the document
does not have a TOC. So, I found that to update a manually created TOC, I
need to:
Select the TOC, right click it, choose "Update Field" click "Update entire
table" and OK that.
As I am new at TOCs, there likely is a better way, anyway, both the online
course that I took on TOCs and the Microsoft book could be updated to address
this issue.

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Fri Mar 17 23:22:36 CST 2006

G'day nelsondon <nelsondon@discussions.microsoft.com>,

I simply use built-in heading levels (although custom styles set with
the correct outline level will also work) and then the std dynamic TOC
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Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice


nelsondon reckoned:

>After posting a message on how to create a TOC using just the first word of
>some major paragraphs, I went out and bought the Microsoft book "Word 2003".
> Page 598 worked me through creating a TOC using the manual "Mark Table of
>Contents" method. But, after creating it, when I try to update it using the
>"Editing and Updating a TOC" section of page 599, Word tells me the document
>does not have a TOC. So, I found that to update a manually created TOC, I
>need to:
>Select the TOC, right click it, choose "Update Field" click "Update entire
>table" and OK that.
>As I am new at TOCs, there likely is a better way, anyway, both the online
>course that I took on TOCs and the Microsoft book could be updated to address
>this issue.
>
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