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Thanks. This solved the problem, though I'm a little puzzled, because I thought I'd tried this before posting my original query, and only put the sizing information in the document itself after I'd had a series of errors when I put the same lines in the preamble (mainly "missing \begin{document}").

I have a document that looks the way I want on A4 paper with a 24 x 17 cm print area, but I need to modify it to have a text area of 19 cm high x 9.5 cm wide, with marginal notes 4 cm wide separated by 0.6 cm from the main text. As far as I can work out from the layout chapter of the memoir manual ...

Thanks. Adding the * works fine.

Sorry about the manual: I was looking in the wrong manual, as it didn't occur to me that this was something specific to the class memoir.

I am preparing a long (300+ pages) document using the memoir class. Obviously it needs a table of contents, but until today I didn't try to use the \tableofcontents command. Now that I have done so it does a good job _except_ that it starts with a link to itself, i.e. as well as the header "Contents ...

Did you ever find a solution to this?

I joined this forum specifically to find out if there was a solution, because, like you, I found the new behaviour very irritating, and I wanted to know if it was a peculiarity of my computer of if others had had the same experience. For the moment I have ...