BF> In any case, there appears to be no way to do what I want
BF> without building a ToC pretty much by hand.  Easier to type
BF> a bunch of chapter numbers and hyphens as the last step,
BF> inelegant though that might be.
I don't understand exactly what you were trying to do that Word would not do. 
 Is it the chapter numbering with hyphens, or is it the positioning of the 
page numbers in the TOC.  Word handles chapter numbers with page numbers 
quite easily.
Bob
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