WD: Only the First Letter Appears in Table of Contents Entry

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.1, 5.1a, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

In the table of contents, only the first letter of a long entry is shown.

CAUSE

You may experience this problem when the Table of Contents (TOC) field references the same heading text as an Index Entry (XE) field, and when the text referenced contains more than 255 characters.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about table of contents and index entries, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q143301
   TITLE     : Entries Missing from Table of Contents

   ARTICLE-ID: Q154025
   TITLE     : WD: How to Have More Than One Index in a Document

   ARTICLE-ID: Q125937
   TITLE     : WD: How to Create a Table of Contents and Index with Field
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