Table of contents in Indesign doesn't work properly

Hello Dax,

Thanks for taking the time to answer my post. Four hours+, is the time I spent on this. But I belong to the cockroach family: indestroyable (well, so to speak). I eventually found this answer, about 1 hour after I posted and you are right with your advise: the problem was with override. But the problem was that when I selected the whole paragraph (it was in Point 13, you can’t make this one up when it comes to misfortune), I didn’t see, as it was not there, the small + sign behind the paragraph style name. As the problem was, I guessed, between Point 12 and 14, I retyped them from scratch (I was lucky, 12 and 14 were only 1 line for the Heading and one line of text, only 13 was longer). I started to type with No style (or Normal) style and then applied the Paragraph styles. And, miracle, the TOC worked all fine again.

I can’t figure out what was wrong at the beginning, but I am happy that this is over and fixed.

As I said though, thanks for your advice which was correct but that I couldn’t figure out because of the missing +.

Cheers.

As JonathanArias​ suggests... you can also turn it on here (see image) it will highlight anywhere in the document you have overrides.

Hi Pierre,

according to he steps you just described, it would appear that the problem does not resides in the "contents" of the points but rather in the quantity of them...

Have you tried creating another heading, Heading 3 (as a copy of Heading 2) and apply it to say points 21 thru 40.

Then, modify your Table of Contents by adding a third level (Heading 3) set at the same level and format option as Heading 2.

Now see if everything appears correctly.

HTH

Michel

go to your preflight panel and turn on the style overwrites option. so you can see exactly all of the places where there are overwrites in your styles.