Problems with Index and Table of Contents - continuing

[Dennison]

I know I have posted about this before - than updating the Index causes the TOC at front of book to be replaced by the Index. And I've been told I'm adding some Index formatting.

But, after 13+ books all with Indexing, and taking great care with Indexing because I know it is glitchy, I'm still getting the same issue.

Only the TOC at the front of the book is affected - which strongly suggests to me that it is not random operator error. If it was Index formatting by accident it could be expected to show up each time randomly in different places in different books. It's always the same error.

Anyone else having this issue?

The workabout is to delete both the TOC and the Index. Complete the Index first and when certain there will be no changes, then insert the TOC and adjust the formatting as needed.

 

[MikeTO]

Hi, I think it has to be a style problem. If you have a TOC and an index and updating the index inserts the index text into the TOC, then the index text style has to be part of the TOC.

The most obvious way this could happen is if you add an index style to the TOC. In this demo, I am including the paragraph style Index Entry 1 in the TOC, so all the index entries formatted with Index Entry 1 will be included in the TOC. There are probably other ways this could happen.

 

[Dennison]

Thanks Mike. I will check if that's what Im inadvertently doing

[MikeTO]

I don't know if it should be a bug or a suggestion, but perhaps Serif would consider filtering out the Index text styles from the TOC panel's Style Name list - you would never want to include them and it just opens the door to mistakes.