Removing the TOC entry from the TOC

Question

Using the article document class I have transferred a DOC template to a tex format (I am using miktex).

The template specifies a given section appearing prior to the table of contents i.e.:

\section{Mandatory section}
bla bla bla

\tableofcontents

\section{Other section}

Problem is that, once generated, the PDF document shows the table of content entry in the table of content i.e:

Mandatory section ....... 1
Content  ................ 2
Other section ........... 3

I want to remove the Content entry from the TOC, but havent found any method to do so.

Any help is high valued.

Answer 1

The template seems to incorrectly use \section instead of \section* for the table of contents. A little let magic should help here:

\let\mysection\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\mysection*{#1}}
\tableofcontents
\let\section\mysection

If you can, fix the template.