Stop table of contents from updating protestboy 12/24/2008 12:04:00 AM I have a document with some form fields in the first section, and then another section with an automatic table of contents. When I protect the document I choose to not protect the second section. The problem is that when I tab between the form fields, or click around to different sections, each time I do I get a popup prompt to update the TOC. Is there some way of supressing this while maintaining a TOC that can be updated as content changes?

Re: Stop table of contents from updating Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/24/2008 12:15:29 AM On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:04:00 -0800, protestboy <protestboy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I have a document with some form fields in the first section, and then >another section with an automatic table of contents. When I protect the >document I choose to not protect the second section. > >The problem is that when I tab between the form fields, or click around to >different sections, each time I do I get a popup prompt to update the TOC. >Is there some way of supressing this while maintaining a TOC that can be >updated as content changes? With the cursor in the TOC, press Ctrl+F11 which is the shortcut for the LockFields command. To update the TOC later, put the cursor in it and press Ctrl+Shift+F11 to unlock it, F9 to do the update, then Ctrl+F11 to lock it again. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Re: Stop table of contents from updating "Beth Melton" <bmelton[ at ]mvps.org> 12/24/2008 4:18:16 PM "protestboy" <protestboy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8FFF9F4E-736D-4E8F-B073-0CAE5D250DEC[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have a document with some form fields in the first section, and then > another section with an automatic table of contents. When I protect the > document I choose to not protect the second section. > > The problem is that when I tab between the form fields, or click around to > different sections, each time I do I get a popup prompt to update the TOC. > Is there some way of supressing this while maintaining a TOC that can be > updated as content changes? Jay answered your question on how to prevent the TOC from updating, but if you want to know why this occurs, in the Form Field properties (double-click a form field to display the Properties) there is an option for "Calculate on exit". This option will updated all fields in your document, including the TOC. If you don't have any fields in the document that need to be updated each time you exit a form field then remove this option and you'll no longer encounter the "Update TOC" prompt. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx