Why does Indesign just go haywire stupid sometimes?

ron curington

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- August 28, 2015 at 7:17 am #77669
  
  ron curington
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  I’m trying to create a TOC and I’m on about my 50th attempt. It keeps doing really stupid messed up things like adding numbers to items and formatting them in the wrong style.
  
  I’ve got a 2 level TOC the first level is essentially sections formatted in a bold font in a font size 1 point greater than the normal entries. i.e. 14pt bold
  Regular entries are styled with a 12pt regular font
  
  For reasons that, so far, defy understanding it will just randomly style a regular entry with the 14pt bold style. Though if I highlight that entry the style panel shows it to be the correct style.
  Is his just another example of the superlative coders at Adobe.
  OK forgive me. It’s just sometimes difficult to be charitable when the software seems to be working overtime to make life difficult.
  
  It has occurred to me that maybe because I have made several attempts at creating a TOC maybe Indesign can’t clear itself of all the previous configurations. And frankly I haven’t seen a way to remove the existing TOC aside from just selecting (highlighting) it and hitting the delete key
- August 28, 2015 at 7:53 am #77670
  
  Matt Mayerchak
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  Ron,
  
  Hard to guess where all the junk is coming from. But, you could delete the whole text box that the TOC is in.
  
  After doing that, I suggest saving an IDML file and reopening the file.
  
  Are you using the TOC panel to choose which styles to apply to each level? Is there perhaps a saved TOC style selected?
- August 28, 2015 at 9:13 am #77694
  
  ron curington
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  Yes I am using the built in TOC function. I’m thinking I may have sorted out the issue. But really I couldn’t say for sure that it did. Actually I went through and deleted some of the styles it seemed to be using though I’m not sure how they got applied in the first place.
  And incidentally I want to thank you for your response and I have to ask for the indulgence of you and the others on the forum as sometimes Adobe just has me pulling my hair out.
  
  Which brings me back to something that could be the source of some of these difficulties.
  
  I still can’t identify which style is the one that InDesign is creating for the TOC that it is producing.
  
  In the process of learning to use Indesign I’m going through the various and sundry videos on the subject. In one such video the presenter commented that Indesign does in fact create this style and that you can go back and edit that style. However try as I may I have yet to find or identify any such style. No doubt some of the problem is that I have created my own such file with various names like “TOC Recipe Entry” and “TOC Section Header” etc. etc.
  Never the less Tis is exactly why it would be a remarkably cool thing to be able to clear Indesign’s cash of TOC configurations i.e. paramaters.
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