Own Character Styles went missing on TOC insert

[juanborras]

Hey There!

If got a document with my own character styles... when I insert a TOC (text->table of contents->Insert table of contents) the character styles I've created disappeared and TOC styles appeared... any ideas? maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Attached a demo file with history enabled... one step forward to insert TOC and see the character style My Title go south

Thanks!!

TOCTest.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Your character text style still exists, Juan. It simply is not associated with that Text Frame any more because TOC text styles are defined in the Table of Contents studio panel, not the Text Frame itself.

To see that the character text style exists just switch to page 2 or 3 and look at those frames.

However, to use TOC entries you need to use paragraph text styles, not character text styles. Entries are selected for a TOC based on their paragraph text styles.

[juanborras]

26 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Your character text style still exists, Juan. It simply is not associated with that Text Frame any more because TOC text styles are defined in the Table of Contents studio panel, not the Text Frame itself.

To see that the character text style exists just switch to page 2 or 3 and look at those frames.

However, to use TOC entries you need to use paragraph text styles, not character text styles. Entries are selected for a TOC based on their paragraph text styles.

Thanks Walt! Let me try it!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. Let us know if you still have some problems

[Jon P]

We do intentionally separate the ToC styles and the normal styles used within the document, to prevent "text style bloating" essentially.

[juanborras]

On 11/19/2019 at 3:13 PM, Jon P said:

We do intentionally separate the ToC styles and the normal styles used within the document, to prevent "text style bloating" essentially.

Understood!