TOC Text Style Default Setting?

[Mr. K]

Every time I update my TOC the text style changes from my custom setting to TOC Heading 1. How do I set it so it maintains my custom text style?

[walt.farrell]

I haven't played with this enough to know, but perhaps you need to create a complete set of TOC text styles, from TOC down the other "TOC: ..." styles, and then specify the main style in the Table of Contents panel. There's an entry there for TOC Style, and a hamburger menu that lets you create new ones.

[Mr. K]

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I haven't played with this enough to know, but perhaps you need to create a complete set of TOC text styles, from TOC down the other "TOC: ..." styles, and then specify the main style in the Table of Contents panel. There's an entry there for TOC Style, and a hamburger menu that lets you create new ones.

It may be something like that, but it is confusing. I'm going to play with the settings a bit and see what I come up with.

[Mr. K]

Yep, it's a mess. Nothing seems to get me what I want. I deleted a bunch of the text styles when the TOC is selected, and that just made things worse.

[Mr. K]

It does not want to hold my tab stop setting. I set it to 2.15", update the TOC, and the tab stop setting is ignored.

 

[Mr. K]

This is what my TOC looks like after I update it:

 

[Dave Harris]

The intent is that you customise the TOC by editing the standard TOC styles rather than by switching to a different style. Is there a reason you can't do that?

[Mr. K]

On 12/29/2018 at 9:04 AM, Dave Harris said:

The intent is that you customise the TOC by editing the standard TOC styles rather than by switching to a different style. Is there a reason you can't do that?

I think it's more about not understanding "the intent" as you say. I plan to spend some time with a blank file and practice working with the TOC. I think it would be helpful if there was a guide about using the TOC. I do see some info in the getting started video, but that info is very basic.

[Mr. K]

I messed around with the settings. I made adjustments to the TOC 1: Heading 1 and that helped. But if I try to set all the paragraph settings inside that style and I delete the TOC: Entry style, then when I refresh the TOC: Entry style is recreated. This is difficult to understand. It seems like all of the text styles are required in the TOC. There's one for entries, one for numbers, and one for tables. I could use help with this.