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I'm trying to add a table of contents into my paper but it comes up with undefined control sequence everytime. I read online it may be a clash with some of the packages used in my preamble, so I'll give my preamble here.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{amsart}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{ellipsis}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

This results in the error undefined control sequence. l.14 \contentsfinish.

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We may need more information, adding \section{test}\end{document} to your example, I have no compilation problems. Please post a full minimal example that display your problem. – daleif Apr 13 '12 at 8:27
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Also note that it's recommendable, often even necessary to load hyperref at the end of your preamble, cf. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1863/… – doncherry Apr 13 '12 at 8:29
Welcome to TeX.sx! Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem – Marco Daniel Apr 13 '12 at 8:45
Thanks for the note with regards to hyperref. Something odd has happened, I copied and pasted the whole of my document to a new file and the table of contents worked fine, yet in my original file (which should be an EXACT copy) it still has the same error...?! – Izzy Apr 13 '12 at 9:51
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Remove auxiliary files, such as the .toc and .aux files, and compile again. – Stefan Kottwitz♦ Apr 13 '12 at 10:20
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closed as too localized by Stefan Kottwitz♦ Apr 13 '12 at 11:17

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