How To Create A Index Using a Style in Affinity Publisher for Mac?

[GregV]

I created a cookbook that is divided into several chapters and individual recipes. I created specific styles for the chapter and recipe titles. I need to create and index and table of contents. When I read Affinity's instructions, it indicates (I think) that I need to create the index using a specific index style that I should have used while creating my document.

Is it possible to create and index and table of contents using the existing style I defined as "Recipe Title" and "Chapter Title", or do I need to go back into my document and retype all of the receipt titles using a new Recipe Title style defined while working with the Index tool? 

I hope my question makes sense. 

[Old Bruce]

3 minutes ago, GregV said:

When I read Affinity's instructions, it indicates (I think) that I need to create the index using a specific index style that I should have used while creating my document.

That style is what will be used in the created index after you make it. You can index the Chapter titles the recipe titles and the ingredients and tools without worrying about the different styles they are using.

The ToC uses the Chapter Title and Recipe Title Paragraph Styles (has to be Paragraph Styles, not Character Styles) to find where they are.

Index needs a marker.

Both will generate uniquely named Paragraph Styles and Index styles.

[walt.farrell]

Basically, for the TOC:

1. You can use any styles you want for the headings in your document.
2. When you generate the TOC, you will tell Publisher which paragraph text styles to include in the TOC.
3. Generating the TOC will create some additional paragraph text styles, visible only when the text cursor is within the generated TOC. If you've named the TOC "TOC1" and if you selected text styles like "Heading 1" then you'll get new text styles like "TOC1 Heading 1 Entry", "TOC1 Heading 1 Number", and some others.
4. Those new text styles will have some standard formatting applied, different from the headings you chose to include in step 2.
5. You then make changes to those new text styles to make the TOC look like you want it to, using the Text Styles panel. Just double-click on one of the TOC styles that you want to change to edit it.

Indexes work much the same way, except that you choose what is included by adding index marks. When you do that you can choose a text style for the page number that will be inserted for that index entry. But you also get new text styles generated, and you can edit them via the Text Styles panel the same way. That allows you to change the style for either the entry name or for the entry number.