Unable to include modified Paragraph styles in TOC

[soom1976]

I am trying to create a Table of Contents from a Book , that includes many INDD documents.

The style I am using to create the TOC is named "Title"

In some documents the Title style is applied as it is, but in some it was modified by me later to match better the designs. So the style's name now is "Title+"

But when I try to create the TOC, it actually only creates entries for the clean Title style, but cannot read any of the entries with the modified style... Meaning I must go to each document, and create a new style for each of these modified titles... which is just a lot of unnecesary work... Is there any way to create the TOC without having to do so?

thanks in advance

[Willi Adelberger]

Why do you not redefine the title style in those documents.

[soom1976]

I just said in the first post - it's a lot of work

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

When  you see the + next to the style's name,  it indicates that it has been manually overridden with other formatting.

The TOC utility will only apply the original style, not the version with the manual overrides.

Solution:

Redefine the Title style so that the modifications become built into the style. Easy to do: right-click on the Title+ style in the paragraph styles panel and select Redefine.

It might be helpful to review how InDesign's TOC utility works and applies styles. Here are some webpages to check out:

• https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-table-contents.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-table-contents.html#options_for_formatting_a_table_o...

[soom1976]

Ok, it makes things clear, but not easy at all. Going manually through all documents and creating dozens of Paragraph styles just to please the TOC is a bit overkill. In the end having little choice, what I did was a kind of workaround - in each file I have created a duplicate of a title with just one Paragraph Style and made it non-printable. With around 30 documents it took a while, but now I am all set, and don't have to worry about formatting in the actual titles...

[Willi Adelberger]

No, you need only to redefine the style in the document. That is what book can have, styles with different definitions but the same name.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Unable to include modified Paragraph styles in TOC. As Willi said, use the same name for the Title style in each INDD chapter of the book, but redefine each one in its INDD file to have the custom appearance you want. Soom1976's method is a long task!

[soom1976]

Unfortunately it was not as simple - it is a complicated artistic book with all kinds of text styles and formatting, and redefining the Style proved to be very cumbersome. The method I used was the best option in my case. I still wish that TOC generator could read partial Style names...