Reply To: TOC confusion

Clark,
For as long as can I remember, Indesign always acted that way.

If I had to deal with this kind of situation, I would put the “abstract” in the text flow, after H2, then choose one of the following workaround:

– Make the “abstract” paragraph style invisible (0.1 pt size – 0 leading – 1% h&v scaling – -1000 approach and no color – no space before/after).
Cons: It makes thinks hard to edit and you’ll have to use the story editor.

– Or, set all “abstract” paragraphs as conditional text. Update TOC, then hide conditional text.
Cons: don’t forget to set the paragraph returns as conditional (Find/Replace could be helpful there). And of course, you have to follow the right order: update TOC, then hide.

I prefer the “conditional text” workaround. Less dirty :-)