Table of Contents

[RoyKO1405]

Hi Team

I am using or trying to use Affinity Publisher 2.1.1 and I am having serious problems with the Table of Contents. The contents panel does not show my created headings so that I can select them. I have tried for several hours now and I cannot find any tutorials on YouTube for my version of the software. Please tell me where I can find what I am after or is it a bug. The information in the manual is very sparse on the subject and is barely a heading. I tried looking at a sample document, the Alice in wonderland one and low and behold the tick boxes are there, but on my book they are not. I have attached a screen shot and on it in the TOC are listed Body and List Paragraph but none of my headings.

Please Help

Roy

[Komatös]

Hi @rko1405 and welcome to the forums.

Please have a look here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=affinity+publisher+2+table+of+contents

[walt.farrell]

It seems odd that Body and List Paragraph would show up as available styles to select from in the TOC panel, when according to the Text Styles panel those styles do not exist in the document.

Given that oddity, I'm not sure what to suggest, unless you can share a copy of the .afpub file with us. Even a subset file would be useful, so you could save a copy of the file, then in the copy delete most of the text. We would just need a few pages that make use of the Text Styles you want to appear in the TOC.

[RoyKO1405]

Hi Walt

I have attached my file for you to have a look at. I hope that you find something to put me back onto the right road.

Best regards

Roy

Challenge The Challenge Test.afpub

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, RoyKO1405 said:

Hi Walt

I have attached my file for you to have a look at. I hope that you find something to put me back onto the right road.

Hi Roy, the problem is you have created your heading styles as Character Styles instead of as Paragraph Styles. The Table of Contents feature works with Paragraph Styles.

You can see this at a glance by looking at the Text Styles panel - character styles have an "a" icon to their left while paragraph styles have a "¶" icon.

You should be able to fix this by editing the styles and changing their type but I'm going to do some investigation because there seems to be a bug with that.

[MikeTO]

You should be able to fix your document with these steps:

1. Edit the styles that should be paragraph styles and on the Style pane change Type from Character to Paragraph. You have three heading styles so do this for each of them.
2. Insert the Table of Contents somewhere. Select the three heading styles in the TOC panel to include them.

That should be it but your document has a problem, some of them have two character styles applied to the same range of text which is supposed to be impossible. This likely happened due to a bug that occurs when you redefine a paragraph style as a character style.

For example, the Glossary heading on page 34 has the Heading 1 Challenge and Heading 2 Challenge Chapter character styles applied to it. One of these was originally a paragraph style.

I suggest you fix your document with these steps:

1. Create new paragraph styles similar to the Heading 1, 2, and 3 character styles
2. Apply these styles to each of your document's headings. After you apply the right style to each heading, select <No Style> for its character style (not for its paragraph style).
3. Delete the three old "heading" character styles
4. Insert the Table of Contents somewhere. Select the three heading styles in the TOC panel to include them.

Good luck!

Edited August 5, 2023 by MikeTO
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