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I'm having difficulty getting the leader in the TOC to stay as inplace. I choose the one with full stops, it puts them in. As soon as I go to save the publication, they disappear. I assume that I'm doing something wrong and do it again. I always get the same behaviour.

John

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You need to modify the Text Styles associated with the TOC. By default you'll have a set of Text Styles like these, that are visible in the Text Styles panel only when the cursor is within a TOC entry:

  • TOC1: Entry
  • TOC1: Heading 1
  • TOC1: Heading 2
  • etc, for each paragraph text style you include in the TOC.

You will need to modify each of the TOC text styles you're using that are based on TOC1: Entry.

So, for example, put the cursor within a TOC entry, switch to the Text Styles panel, then for each of those TOC1: <text-style-name> styles you're using in the TOC:

  1. Right-click on the Text Style name in the panel, e.g., right-click on TOC1: Heading 1.
  2. From the context menu, choose Edit TOC1: Heading 1.
  3. In the Text Style editing menu, click on the Tab Stops section. Specify the . as the leader character:
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  4. Then click OK at the bottom of the dialog. Repeat for next TOC Text Style that you're using.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    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
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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Thanks Walt, I did all you said and I was surprised to find that when I went to the file and opened it this morning everything was as it should be. So thi isn't the problem I thought it was.

I don't think that the help file expresses it as well as you have just done. I had to learn it from an excellent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5wLfj7AO_Q

I hope that whoever looks after the Help files is aware of all these better explanations and learns from them.

At first I thought it might be due to me the fact that I am now using Windows 11, it sometimes pulls usurprising tricks on me. My wife often quotes an IT lecturer of hers in the early days of BBC B  computers who said that the trouble with computer programmers was that they were written by games players. Win 11 seems to confirm that.

Thanks for your help.

John

 

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You're welcome. Glad it worked :) 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    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
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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  • 2 weeks later...

Having fixed the style in the edit Text style I went back to the TOC and put the separator to right indent it changed to show the leader. However as soon as I left the TOC panel and clicked back onto the page It had reverted to no leader just like before, clicking on the text of the leader and  looking back I saw that the TOC panel no longer showed the right indent blue rectangle. Nothing I did subsequently changed this behaviour.

I can only put it down to a bug. I am running windows 10, it might not happen in other versions.

choose the texts.png

right align showing.png

after clicking on page .png

Blue rectactange now missing.png

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