TOC in Publisher 2

[John Kay]

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

[walt.farrell]

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:
   
    
4. Then click OK at the bottom of the dialog. Repeat for next TOC Text Style that you're using.

[John Kay]

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

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. Glad it worked  

[John Kay]

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.

[stokerg]

Hi @John Kay,

On 12/2/2022 at 4:26 PM, John Kay said:

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

 

Does this still happen in the latest version, 2.0.4?

[John Kay]

I am not sure about this but I would assume that it has been put right by now. I am still happy using PagePlus for all I need , I still think it is more user friendly for me. Sorry I can't be more help at the moment.

John