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Table of contents color won't update and index page numbers have a return after every two entries

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October 16, 2022
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Hi Everyone,

Running into two issues I'm hoping someone has some insight on.

The table of contents won't update the color. I can't seem to get that red color to change to the blue. The 3rd level changed no problem like I would have expected.

I'm using the default styles for the index and it looks like this:

How do I get the page numbers to continue in the same line?

Really appreciate any thoughts here!

Thanks a bunch,

Brendan

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Correct answer Peter Kahrel

The problem in the index is caused by the character style '5eArrow CS'. It's set by default. To fix that, make sure you have no selection at all, then select the character style '[None]' and redo the index. Or remove the character style from the index.

The TOC problem is caused by nested styles on your TOC paragraph styles:

These character styles apply a colour. Fix or remove the nested style and you'll be fine. No need to redo the TOC.

Peter

Peter Kahrel

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The problem in the index is caused by the character style '5eArrow CS'. It's set by default. To fix that, make sure you have no selection at all, then select the character style '[None]' and redo the index. Or remove the character style from the index.

The TOC problem is caused by nested styles on your TOC paragraph styles:

These character styles apply a colour. Fix or remove the nested style and you'll be fine. No need to redo the TOC.

Peter

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Brendan24111036dhr9Author

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I did not know about nested styles! Thank you so much for taking the time to show me that. I'm not clear on what was happening with the 5e arrow, but I'm not using it so I just deleted it completely. It all worked great! Thanks you so much @Peter Kahrel! Document is starting to look normal, especially that index. Thanks again!

Peter Kahrel

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The colour problem in your TOC could be caused by overrides on the headings in the text.

The index problem -- no idea. The paragraph marks are scaled horizontally and vertically, baseline-shifted down, and moved to the right, maybe some spaces added. You should have a comma (and probably a space) between your page numbers , as set out in the index generation box, but the comma isn't shown and the spaces are scaled.

Maybe some nested styles cause havoc? If that's not the problem, maybe post your document so that we can take a look.

(Written while Barb posted, hence the overlap.)

P.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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I'd think this — that there are character styles on the indexed headings. TOC generation will pull those in. Change to a simple Paragraph Style on those and most of these problems should go away.

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Barb Binder

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Hi @Brendan24111036dhr9":

Check the level 2 heads for a character style in the source files. Remove the character styles and update the TOC.

I can't figure out what is going on with the index, and specifically what the blue hyphen between the non-consecutive numbers is doing. Your index dialog box seems to show the standard comma space between numbers. What you are getting seems more like a flush space, but I don't see why, nor would it be a hyphen. Can you share the index? You can put it on dropbox and message me the link privately, if you are comfortable sharing it.

Also, what is the alignment on the index entries? It should be align-left.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training