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content of content list disappeared (Table of Contents)

Anonymous
2024-12-18T15:04:22+00:00

I'm working on a project and I made a table of contents a week ago, and it worked perfectly, then I realized something was off with headlines numbering and I changed it. And now when I updated the content list it shows no content. I tried adding a new one from scratch, also didn't work out. If anyone has an idea on what to do, please help me.

Here is my file if you can take a look. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zidgPV_hjMJJkXRKiAcCRgvUhJrzQ9Sl/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110397604907795616040&rtpof=true&sd=true

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  1. Stefan Blom 342.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-19T08:01:07+00:00

    In your sample document, the TOC picks up heading levels 1–3, and the headings in the document are level 4. That explains why (most) headings disappear from the table of contents as you update it.

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  2. John Korchok 232.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-18T15:31:51+00:00

    You have a mismatch between your heading style formatting and your TOC field parameters. Here's a page explaining how TOC parameter switches work. Without a sample document, we can't suggest the simplest way to fix this mismatch. You can upload a document to a cloud service, then post a share link here so we can take a look.

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  3. Charles Kenyon 167.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-19T21:20:16+00:00

    However, you have a lot of non-heading text at the same outline level.

    1. Change the TOC field to reflect 1-4 instead of 1-3.
    2. Update your TOC.
    3. Use Ctrl-Click to go to each non-heading showing up in your TOC.
    4. Change that paragraph to not have an outline level but rather be body text level.
    5. Update your TOC.
    6. Repeat until all superfluous paragraphs have been dealt with.

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  4. Charles Kenyon 167.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-18T23:55:04+00:00

    I have your document.

    Can you point out the problems you are seeing - which particular points?

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  5. Charles Kenyon 167.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-18T18:59:10+00:00

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