Comments on: Formatting Headings for Inclusion in a Table of Contents

By: gaz

gaz — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:42:41 +0000

I have two headers on the same page. i have a three sub headers after header 1. i have two sub headers after header 2.

when i run TOC, it shows as
Header 1… page 4
Header 2… page 4
Sub header 1.. page 4 (this should be after Header 1)
Sub header 2.. page 4 (this should be after Header 1)
Sub header 3.. page 4 (this should be after Header 1)
Sub header 1.. page 4 (this should be after Header 2)
Sub header 2.. page 4(this should be after Header 2)

How can i make subheader 1, 2 3 appear after Header 1 and then hvae Header 2, then their relevant subheaders.
thanks
gaz

By: Janis

Janis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:04:59 +0000

Yes, in Indesign are messed up Character and Paragraph styles. And you can not apply all formatting with one click as it was. And you can not give instructions to TOC to have different character style than it is…
maybe some plugin is able to reformat TOC to character style you need after update?

By: Funkwarrior

Funkwarrior — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:14:04 +0000

I resolve my issue with soft returns on TOC using Non breaking space (Type > Insert White Space >Non Breaking Space)

Everything is fine now!

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:25:46 +0000

I have a document where the headers are preceded AND followed by a bullet character. Because the bullet is at the beginning and the end, I don’t set it up as “Bullets and Numbering” b/c that would only give me one bullet at the beginning. Unfortunately you cannot check a box to to apply another bullet after the text. To complicate matters, this bullet is formatted differently than the text it encloses, so I have a character style applied to the bullets.

When generating my TOC, it pulls in the bullets and retains their formatting, and applies this formatting to all the text following the bullets (i.e. my tab leaders and page numbers). Fixing the formatting in CS5 was a snap…I just applied a character style to my tab leaders and to the page number. But I still need to manually remove those darn bullets! Is there a way to get the TOC to ignore certain characters? Alternatively, is there a way to apply a beginning and ending bullet to a paragraph style so that they don’t get pulled in when you generate a TOC?

Thanks!

By: Jongware

Jongware — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:54:21 +0000

Bunny: create a new heading style based on your regular style. InDesign distinguishes styles for the TOC by name, so it won’t be included that way. And if you change the original style, the based-on style will change as well.
You have to remember to change the original, not the derived one.

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:37:01 +0000

Do you know of any way to mark specific instances of headings so that they are excluded from the table of contents? I could assign a different stylesheet for the instances we want excluded and not include that style in the ToC stylesheet, but since they otherwise are identical to the ones we do want included, and are treated in every other way like those headings, I’d like to be able to assign them the same style but somehow denote “this instance should not be included in the ToC.” Any ideas?

By: faizal

faizal — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:36:11 +0000

I have a small issue(Big?)with Indesign
I have two difrent paragaph styles it should appear in a same line on TOC .
for example .
I have a heading with ’style 1′
and refrence number with’ style 2′ ,when we are creatingTOC both styles should be in same line.
is it possible?
I strongly beleive that some one can help me easily.
Thanks and
sorry for bad english

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:15:35 +0000

David, isn’t there a way to do this with Cross References?

By: lateregistrant

lateregistrant — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:15:17 +0000

@David Blatner – Thank you, I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out and since this site has been so helpful with teaching me other techniques I figured it was a shot in the dark. I may try the indexmatic script, I was just trying to make the TOC as dynamic as possible as there are over 60 pages and don’t want to have to manually create indexes for everything. I may just have to simplify the TOC.

Thank you again!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:03:27 +0000

@lateregistrant: Sorry, I haven’t seen anything like that. Cool idea, though. I guess you could do it with the indexmatic script found elsewhere on this site…. in other words make an index that looks like a TOC.