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• • December 22, 2023 at 5:50 am #14398440
    Priscillah

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    I have a book where the chapter number and chapter title have different paragraph style since they have dofferent formats but in the TOC I would like them to be in one line with the format” Chapter 1: I am Strong…………..1.

    How do I do that?

  • December 22, 2023 at 6:18 am #14398441
    Nick B

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    Hi Priscillah

    I think you could just use your chapter title paragraph style to generate the table of contents and add the “Chapter x: “ to the TOC paragraph style you set in the TOC settings box for that numbering level. However, if you are using a numbered list to increment the “Chapter x” in the main document, then you will need to use a different numbered list for your chapter title paragraph style otherwise it will increment twice in each chapter.

    Depending on why you are using two paragraph styles in the main text, it might that you could keep the chapter titles in one paragraph and use a character style for the numbering to achieve the different format. If you are doing it for layout purposes rather than text formatting then of course that might force two paragraphs.

    Nick

    • December 23, 2023 at 11:57 pm #14398568
      Steve Davis

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      this is also how i have done it but ran into problems when i just needed the Chapter name in the running head as I had a bold beginning of the chapter and then a regular ending — which the character style did fine but the text variable would only pick up part of it

  • December 23, 2023 at 2:36 am #14398564
    Mike Rankin

    Keymaster

    In addition to what Nick said, there’s a way you can make the chapter number and title appear on the same line in the TOC by using zero leading, as described in this post: https://creativepro.com/the-zero-leading-solution/

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