[Solved] Page numbers in Table of Contents not correct

[AlanDavidson]

I've just met an old friend from M$ W--d, version 6.0. Page numbers in the TOC don't match the actual page numbers.

The problem could be related to the fact that I am using roman numerals for front matter, and arabic numerals for the chapters. This forces chapter 1, page 1 to be a right-hand page. I have allowed the first pages of subsequent chapters to be left or right.

The final page of chapter 1 is "11", on a right page. The first page of chapter 2 is "12", on a left page.

I notice that the TOC is correct up to, and including page 11. However, chapter 2 is shown in the TOC as page 13.

I have verified that the TOC actually is updating. I do this by changing the text of some headings and verifying that the corresponding text in the TOC also changes.

Can anyone help?

Regards,
Alan

[ftack]

How did you change the page numbers? Page numbers never failed on me. Perhaps you used the "offset" in the Insert - Fields - Page number dialog? If you change the page number using this way, problems are guaranteed.

[AlanDavidson]

[JohnV]

[jeanweber]

[Hagar Delest]

I agree with JohnV.

[AlanDavidson]

I think we should all stop discussing this problem. Then it might just go away. Here is the history:

1) I noticed the problems as in my original post yesterday.

2) I replied to ftack's response.

3) I saved my file at 16.57 SHT (Scottish Highlands Time).

4) This morning I opened the file to try some of the forum suggestions.

5) All yesterday's work had disappeared. (In other words, the file save at 16.57 had not actually saved anything.

6) Because I've been burnt by OOo saves in the past, I always have a BAK file created automatically. So I opened the BAK file.

7) All my changes are in the BAK file, except my very last change of a few words.

8 The TOC problem that several contributors tried to help me with yesterday does not appear in the BAK file.

There are two issues here:

1) How can a file be saved at 16.57, but not actually save any changes?

2) How can the 16.57 BAK file be more up-to-date than a normal save?

(Remember that a BAK file simply records the *second-last* changes in a file, not the last changes. This is because it's a copy of the *previous* version of the file, not the current version. That's why my very last change does not appear in the BAK file.)

I think OOo was so ashamed of it's TOC errors that it decided not to save the file during the normal save.

(The sharp-eyed might have noticed that I did not use a closing perenthesis in number 8 in my list above. That would have produced this next smiley:

Try it!

I think I'll go home.

[Hagar Delest]