WD2000: Table of Contents Appears Incorrectly in Browser (224688)

RESOLUTION

The concept of page numbers doesn't actually exist on Web pages. Word 2000 supports this by discarding page numbers in the Web preview of tables of contents by using field switches.

When you enter the TOC field with right-aligned numbers and leading dots in Word 97, the TOC field is as follows:

{TOC \o "1-3"}

and when you perform the same in Word 2000, it appears like this:

{TOC \o "1-3" \h \z}

The \h switch forces the entries to be displayed as hyperlinks. This switch links the entries and the page numbers within the TOC.

The \z switch hides page numbers in Web layout view.

Neither of these switches is included in the Word 97-inserted TOC field, because this functionality is not present in Word 97.

If you manually add the \z switch to the TOC field in the original document, the field code behaves as expected in Word 2000 and is ignored in Word 97.

To add the \h and \z fields to the TOC field, follow these steps:

1. View field codes by pressing ALT+F9.
2. Click after the existing TOC text (just before the right bracket) and type the following
   
   \h \z
   The field code for the TOC field now looks like the following:
   
   {TOC \o "1-3" \h \z}