MS Word ToC issue

Edgar D' Souza edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 20:54:45 MST 2006


On 11/3/06, arroxaneullman at aol.com <arroxaneullman at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I have a question for my fellow Word experts:
>
> Why does the Table of Contents show the page numbers for the front matter
> as Arabic numbers (1,2,3, etc.) when the page numbers are actually
> lower-case Roman (i, ii, iii, etc.)?
>
> I've completely deleted and re-created my ToC and looked through the
> advanced field options, yet it refuses to recognize the format of the page
> numbers (it does in other ToCs).
>
> Ideas? Suggestions? Solutions? Munitions?
>

Shot in the dark - would you or someone else working on the doc happen to
have inserted page numbers twice in the affected section? That might
possibly be a reason... see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/WordsNumberingExplained.htm

HTH,
Ed.



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