Empty entry in table of contents

I have created a couple of table of contents recently and in every instance they added a blank entry at the end. In most cases this is OK as I can either delete it or simply force the entry to be overset but I'd prefer it not be created at all. Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do to fix it or keep it from happening in the first place?

If you "Show Invisible Characters", does it display as a paragraph break, or a soft line break, or perhaps as something else?
A quick test shows that ID will not include totally empty paragraphs that are tagged with one of your include-in-TOC style paragraph styles. If there is just a single space on that line, ID will not consider it to be empty and so it will appear in your TOC -- but followed with a page number, as per instructions. Only if you happened to tag one-space paragraphs with some style and that same style is to be included in your TOC without a page number, you would see it as a blank line.
(Peter was a bit faster and has made more TOCs than I --. Yep, that blank at the end comes and goes of its own free will.)

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and 8 lines under you will read:
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