Hi Kim
When you make a Table of Contents, make sure to choose a paragraph style for the styling of the text (Box Section) that it collects. Your screenshot shows the styles set to None. There should be a ToCstyle chosen there.
Once a ToC is made to your satisfaction, be sure to name the ToC Style, suchs as KimsToC.
Bear in mind that any text in a textframe that doesn't look like you expected or designed it to look is probably being counter-argued because a character style is accidentally applied full time. When you look at the Character Style panel with nothing selected, it should be sitting on None. Also, when your Type tool is in the ToC text, probably only the paragraph style should be acting on it; not a character style.
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