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Error! Bookmark not defined
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However, if the document doesn't use the built-in heading styles, or if there are relatively few changes, you could continue with your semi-manual TOC by replacing the missing bookmarks or by changing the references in the TOC.
Where you see the Error! Bookmark not defined message, that's a field. Right-click it and click Toggle Field Codes. You might see something that looks like this:
{ PAGEREF someBookmark }
or something that looks like this:
{ PAGEREF _Ref364868613 }
In either case, the "word" after PAGEREF will be the name of the bookmark that the field originally pointed to. The first kind points to a bookmark that someone inserted by hand, while the second kind points to a hidden bookmark that was created by the cross-reference dialog. Whichever it is, that bookmark no longer exists in the document.
You can use the Insert > Bookmark dialog to create a new bookmark with the old name if that's what you want; or you can just delete the field (select it and press the Delete key) and then use the References > Cross-Reference dialog to make a new reference to a new section, according to these directions.
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