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I'm making a table of contents and need to be able to assign a certain text style to the parts of my chapter titles I want included in my table of contents. 

I find that I when I try to highlight and change the text styles of the roman numeral above the chapter title and the line below (so they are not included), the chapter titles in the middle get changed to, even though the text is not highlighted. So I end up with all three being caught up in whatever text style I select.

See pic below. 

Any way to assign text styles without this happening?

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, AntiqueFlaneur said:

I find that I when I try to highlight and change the text styles of the roman numeral above the chapter title and the line below (so they are not included), the chapter titles in the middle get changed to, even though the text is not highlighted. So I end up with all three being caught up in whatever text style I select.

I'm a bit confused because I don't see any roman numeral above the chapter title. I see "PREFACE" (which I take to be the chapter title), "By DR. L. H. BAILEY", and the line.

It would also help if you had Text > Show Special Characters enabled, as it's important to know whether those 3 lines are part of one paragraph, or individual paragraphs. If they're all in one paragraph, because (for example) you used a line break (shift+enter) after "PREFACE" rather than a paragraph break (enter) then they are all in the same paragraph, and any change to the paragraph style would apply to all of them.

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50 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm a bit confused because I don't see any roman numeral above the chapter title. I see "PREFACE" (which I take to be the chapter title), "By DR. L. H. BAILEY", and the line.

It would also help if you had Text > Show Special Characters enabled, as it's important to know whether those 3 lines are part of one paragraph, or individual paragraphs. If they're all in one paragraph, because (for example) you used a line break (shift+enter) after "PREFACE" rather than a paragraph break (enter) then they are all in the same paragraph, and any change to the paragraph style would apply to all of them.

I was using the line breaks instead of the paragraph breaks, and switching  those fixed my problem. Thanks so much for your help!

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You're welcome; glad to have guessed correctly :)

-- Walt
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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