Middle of document acts like one huge paragraph

Something has happened to one of my documents and I cannot figure out
what. It is 12 pages long. There is a "range" of text from the middle
of page 2 to the middle of page 10 that acts like one huge paragraph.
I have turned on the paragraph marks and it is not one huge paragraph.
There are hundreds of paragraph marks within that range.

If I place the cursor anywhere within that range, say on page 9, but
do NOT select any text, and then try to apply a heading style such as
using Alt+Ctrl+1 for Heading 1, that style is applied to every
paragraph in the affected range. If I do the same thing anywhere else
in the document, it behaves normally. That is, just that paragraph is
affected.

I can apply styles than heading styles and they seem to work OK.

If I try to increase the line leading (space before) setting of any
portion of text within the range, the increase only affects the first
line of the range as if it were a huge paragraph. This happens whether
I select some text or not.

Can anyone suggest what might have happened and, more importantly, how
I can repair it?

I suspect that it has something to do with a table of contents. At the
top of this range of text (middle of page 2), I had a table of
contents. When I opened the document, whioch I have been working on
for several days, the table of contents was "broken" in the middle.
The first half looked normal, then there was a "break" and the
remaining lines had different margins or offsets. I tried deleting the
table of contents, but this did not fix the problem.

Thanks

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Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000
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