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amanm5143
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May 4, 2018
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Applying styling to TOC in Indesign

  • May 4, 2018
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Hi,

I am using Adobe InDesign 2018 CC and have been trying to figure out a way to give particular styling to TOC but have not been able to do so.

For example,

I have my Heading with a paragraph style - Times New Roman, Font 18, "All Caps", "Bold" (named - Heading 1)

Now, I define my TOC style and create a new paragraph style for H1 that could be flowed in TOC (named TOC Heading 1 Style) - Times New Roman, Font 12, "Normal Caps", "Italics"

Whenever, I generate my TOC, it just takes the first two properties - Times New Roman and Font 12 and completely ignores the other two properties, especially "Normal Caps". How do I force InDesign to apply the new paragraph style and not pick up Heading 1 paragraph styling "Case" and "Font Style".

I tried applying character styling to TOC's Heading 1 PAragraph Style, it didn't work. Also, I tried to nestle a Normal Case character styling in TOC Heading 1 Style but that didn't work as well.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Aman Mittal

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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

Thank you for replying. Are you trying to infer that if I type a text with Caps Lock On then, the case styling in the paragraph style would not override its function over the text?


You should never use Cap Locks for writing text in Capital Letters. Use only a specific Paragraph or Character Style. So you can use that text for TOCs and Running Headers, also for Cross References as well. None of these automatism will overwrite Locked Caps. Any text has to be written as it would be normal text. It gives you also the flexiblity to change later the appearance of your headines, simply by changing the paragraph or character style.

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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May 4, 2018

Let's go back to the basics for a minute.

How did you set up your TOC style?

Based on what you wrote, here's what I think it should look like. Is that what you have?

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amanm5143Author
Inspiring
May 6, 2018

Hey Bevi,

Yes! This is correct. I had defined Normal Capping and Italics style in TOC Heading 1 Style styling but it took All Caps styling from Heading 1 style.

Regards,

Aman

Anna Lander
Anna Lander
Inspiring
May 6, 2018

A bit strange question. How were your headings typed? Were they typed in the normal case or with Caps Lock?

Normal case in Paragraph style just keeps the typing case, doesn't change it.

the second moment: any overrides in Headings?

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 4, 2018

Have you tried exporting to IDML and re-opening the resulting IDML file to reconstitute the INDD file (and possibly get rid of minor file corruption)?

Have you looked to see the age/date of your Times New Roman? Is it an up-to-date OpenType font?

Mike Witherell
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amanm5143Author
Inspiring
May 4, 2018

I had created a completely new INDD file by removing all InDesign cache and saved defaults. Still, no solution.

My Times New Roman font is up to and supports Italics, Bold Italics and other types as well.

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 4, 2018

Did you check to see whether a Character Style in the Character Style panel is accidentally turned on and interfering with what you want to see/format?

Mike Witherell
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amanm5143Author
Inspiring
May 4, 2018

Hey Michael,

Thank you for replying. Yes! I had double checked the character styling tab. No character style was applied to either Heading 1 Paragraph Style or TOC Heading 1 Style. Infact, I cross checked the same by changing font type to Italics in default "None" character style for TOC Heading 1 Paragraph Style. It still did not have any impact on the text.

Regards,

Aman Mittal

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