MS Word Table of Contents Line Break Issue

Question

I've got this bizarre problem. In a long, tightly formatted word doc (it's 350 book, with styles for everything).... My Header1 styles chapter headers are, for example

0 Prologue
1 Chapter One
2 Chapter Two 
3 Chapter Three

When I generate the TOC it looks like this

0 Prologue        ...  1
1                ... 10 
Chapter One      ... 10 
2                ... 25 
Chapter Two      ... 25
3                ... 41
Chapter Three    ... 41

No matter what I do, the first WORD of the Chapter title (except the very first one!) .. gets treated as a separate line. No matter what I do. Ive generated this many times ... I have examined the Header1 styles (for page break before etc).... and I have turned the "codes" on to see if there is any difference between the "prologue" heading and the others. Nothing.

Any ideas??

Answer 1

I looked at everything, especially the codes (when revealed). Nothing. But I realized that I was saving my documents to .doc format (the older) as opposed to .docx ... the moment I started saving to .docx the problem went away!