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I cannot reproduce the problem (delete the alphabetical index, the 
Toc disappear).
You flagged the field OS to "other". What kind of OS are you working 
on?
Please also detail the way you delete the index and what you see.
Does the TOC disappear from the Navigator (F5)? 

Well, this one has happened to me several times, but not all the time.




I will click on the toc with the right mouse button, to show the 
little menu that allows me to delete the table. then regenerate it.




fine sofar, then I will delete and regenerate the index the same way. 




now, if I go back to the TOC, which is all the way in the front of the 
document, and I do the delete routine again, i.e. by clicking on it, 
suddenly, as I delete the table, or so I think, I'm finding myself 
back at the Index, and have deleted it again.




The only work around I have found which works most of the time to stop 
this behavior, has been to do the index, save the file, completely 
shut down OOo, and then do the TOC in a fresh round of editing.




So the problem seems to happen when editing both at the same time, and 
the linkage appears to be mostly one way, i.e. if I edit TOC after 
index, it seems to "remember" the Index. The other way around the 
problem has not occured.

I still cannot repreduce it, sorry.
Once again: what is your OS? 

Win2K, SR3, OOo 1.10 beta




I have experienced this problem about 15-20 times in some 4, 5 
different sessions, so I know it's real.




there must somehow be a memory effect going on that the routine 
retains a variable, and stays pointed to the last table it deleted or 
re-generated, even though you've just selected it from another 
location.




I see from my own notes that I did experience it in both directions, 
so the way to replicate it is within the same session to 
delete/regenerate first the index, and then do the same for the TOC. 
Sometimes it worked a few times before it failed, and there may be 
editing work going on between the cycles.


At some point you will find that it deletes the wrong item - visually 
you'll be pointed to the TOC when you click delete, but when it comes 
back you've been moved to the Index location, and you've just deleted 
the index.




again the work around has been to save it, get out completely and 
start fresh, and not do both in one session.

How do you move from one index to the other? Over the Navigator? With 
the scroll bar?
When you delete an index, do you:
1) right click, then delete
2) left click in the index, then right and delete?

If you do 1) it may be that the cursor is still set in the first 
index when you delete. though you see the second one.

Please check this

yup indeed,




if you right click only it leaves the pointer set to the other table, 
now I understand and know what to do... 




I would still consider this a bug, it makes no sense to be pointed 
elsewhere, not to the place where your visual clues lead you to 
believe you are at the time...

This is a known enhancment whish: the right mouse button doesn't move
and set the cursor.

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