Text disappears by updating the table of contents

I work with documents several pages that have been created by someone else in CS3 and then I convert it into CS5. Several times when I tried to update the table of contents, all text in the document disappears. All the objects to hold their positions and nothing else changes except that there is no visible text. I checked the table of contents style settings and can find no difference between a document that updates correctly and which don't. Around her, the only way is to copy and paste the content into a new document. This does not happen with all documents, only about 30%.

Text disappearing when you update a table of contents is usually a symtom of havint put the table of contents in the main story line. The table of contents must be in a separate story, no wire to anything, because the update replaces the whole story.

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