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• • April 17, 2015 at 7:31 am #74769
    Charles Lattam

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    Dear Helpers,

    I know this topic has been dealt with earlier in Mr. Blatner`s post:

    https://creativepro.com/formatting-headings-for-inclusion-in-a-table-of-contents.php

    but still couldn´t figure how to deal with the problem: My document features only 2 types of headings which are well read into the TOC. For each

    heading I have applied a separate TOC styles. Now, I need to highlight some words in bold on each heading ONLY ON THE PAGES, but I don´t want

    this to get included into the TOC. Clearing overrides does only help until I update the table. And the TOC paragraph´s Font Style (=Regular)

    cannot dominate over the local formatting. Character Styles cannot be applied to the TOC, if I am not mistaken. — What to do?

    The weird part is, that the first heading (which is identical to all others of its kind) does not display its local (partly bold) formatting.

    I had already set up the whole document entirely new, thinking I had overseen some detail in its earlier version, but the strange phenomena

    remains. — Thanks a lot for your help!

  • April 20, 2015 at 1:18 pm #74848
    Alan Gilbertson

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    There’s a quirk in how InDesign handles TOC entries. In a nutshell, the Paragraph Style in the text will be converted to the assigned TOC style, but any local override will pass straight through unchanged. That includes manually applying a Character Style to words in the heading. It doesn’t apply to drop caps or nested styles that are part of the text Paragraph Style.

    This can get pretty grim. If you have a headline Paragraph Style using 30 point type on 30 points of leading, and you tweak the leading on the second line of a particular headline to 29 points for better appearance, the 14 point TOC entry for that headline will ALSO have 29 points of leading. Scares the pants off you the first time it happens.

    I brought this one up years ago, but it seems that fixing it is a non-trivial problem.

  • April 29, 2015 at 6:15 am #75047
    Charles Lattam

    Member

    Thanks for your reply. I spend some time with the content of my document to cool my head down. Finally I went for a cheap work-around:

    I pasted the same headings with my preferred formatting on Master Sheets, then formatted the page headings on the doc how I want them

    to appear in the TOC and made them transparent finally. — Not really cool but a least effective.

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