TOC in MS Word

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Elena Bogatova
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TOC in MS Word

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Hi!
I am using a template to create a doc document.
The TOC is not created immediately automatically. You need to update the table, then TOC appears. What am I doing wrong?
Here's what I see in the resulting .doc file. If I update this table, the table of contents will appear. But I want to see the table of contents right away, I don't want to do an update.
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The TOC is not created immediately automatically. You need to update the table, then TOC appears. What am I doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong, this is normal. That is how the TOC works in any Word document. It is a placeholder field that is populated from the chapter headings in the document when it is updated.

When you publish from Help+Manual and open the DOCX document for the first time in Word automatically after publishing you will see a button in Word that will do this updating automatically, using the macro file that is generated together with the Word document.
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