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Inélsòre
Inspiring
January 7, 2023
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ToC Title style switches to [No Paragraph style]

  • January 7, 2023
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Dear all,

every time I click on Layout > Update Table of Contents, the Title (automatically set to Contents) disappears.

Thinking I did something wrong, I select Layout > Table of Contents... and see that the Paragraph Style for the Title has been changed by InDesign to [No Paragraph Style]. 

Thinking it was a mistake, I set it to what I wanted and hit Save Style. Hitting OK the title reappears.

After a while, using Update ToC again makes it disappear. Opening ToC... shows the correctly saved style, but with title changed to [No Paragraph Style].

I have no idea what to do, nor this ever happened to me before.

(InDesign 18.1, macOS 12.6.2)

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Barb BinderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 7, 2023

Hi @Inélsòre:

 

Expanding on @James Gifford—NitroPress's answer, take a minute to save the TOC style once you get the dialog box set up. You can replace it as you continue to refine your output until it is doing exactly what you need it to do. Then all you need to do is choose Layout > Update Table of Contents after edits.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 7, 2023

This is the only ID menu I know of that loses its settings in between uses, and not just when a document or session is closed. It can be frustrating if you don't remember that 'save.'

 

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InélsòreAuthor
Inspiring
January 7, 2023

The problem is that I am saving, but it is not sticking. 

I open the dialogue, perform the edits, save the style, hit ok.

Then, if I just use Update ToC, the title disappears (the rest stays, so maybe it's just that field?)

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 7, 2023

It's not very clear, but whenever you make changes to a TOC "style" — poor term, it's really a complete model or schema — you MUST save it before hitting OK to generate the TOC, or it will only use those settings once and then revert to whatever was default/set before.

 

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