Microsoft KB Archive/115269

= TOC Shows Backslash Instead of Quotation Mark =

Article ID: 115269

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q115269





SYMPTOMS
When you create a table of contents entry field (that is, a TC field) that contains quoted material at the end of the TC field, the table of contents shows the entry concluding with a backslash (\) rather than a quotation mark as its final character.

This behavior occurs when the Replace Straight Quotes With Smart Quotes option is not enabled.

For example, the following item in the document

Use of the Phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

appears in the TC field as  {TC "Use of the Phrase \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" "} and appears in the table of contents as:

Use of the Phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.



WORKAROUND
Place a period or a nonbreaking space between the final two quotation marks. (To create a nonbreaking space, press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR.) {TC "Use of the Phrase \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\"."}

{TC "Use of the Phrase \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" "}



MORE INFORMATION
The backslashes in the field indicate to Word that the quotation marks are to appear in the table of contents and that they do not indicate the end of the material. If the backslashes are not present, the text that appears in the table of contents ends with the second quotation marks. In the above example,

Use of the Phrase

would appear in the table of contents.

Keywords: kbfield KB115269

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