Hi again Vinny. My GREP overlord guru magician,

Thanx for the speedy reply. I almost got it to work with using just instead of the {2}. I only have one tab. But then I realized that I have manually inserted line breaks (shift+return) in the chapter headings, i.e. the line break will not occur after x number of characters. This makes it much easier and the GREP string now reads: .{10,}\D\K\d+

– The .{10,} part is needed since the first line contains a word “nyckel” followed by the chapter number

Yet another – VERY BASIC – question:
I want to use a TOC header including the header and then “Page” right aligned on top of the page numbers. I must be blind but I cannot figure this one out

Hmmm, thanx but that sounds awkward. It goes relatively quickly to generate a PDF where I can easily see the entire book but I consider this more of a work around than a preferred way of working. I thought that there would be an easy way when you quickly want to browse in order to get an overview.

I now have the final TOC in place. In order to ensure a line break even though I didn’t have any sub chapters I added yet another paragraph style which IS present in all chapters. The giant tick.

At the end of all chapters I have a rather big tick marker (I’m not 100% sure what it is called in English but if you have a checkbox you tick it with something that looks like an extravagant v). In order to implement it I used my newly acquired GREP skills and made two search/replace queries (REALLY annoying but I cannot see how this can be done using formatting or even only one s/r operation).

The first finds the end of the chapter (article) and adds a carriage return and the letter P. Search ($)\Z Replace: $1P The second changes the style of the paragraph in order to convert the P to a tick (Wingdings 2) and to get a paragraph style I can use to fix the TOC problem. Search: (^P$) and then the new paragraph style.

I am getting to the point where I need to write a manual for the InDesign book I have created in order to remember all the fancy stuff I have used. I am well aware of the dangers of being too inventive but it is very much fun :)

That is brilliant.

I created the “invisible” character style and applied the grep style Q you provided and I still have issues :P I tried to interpret the grep and I am not sure that I am doing such a good job. What I get is a tab after the chapter number and the page number that follows the chapter number is not right indent.

It is looking for the word “Nyckel” followed by a white space, any number of digits and a tab. Then the \K. A little bit of googling tells me that \K is a neater version of Positive Lookbehind (?<=) The actual entry to replace is then any number of digits followed by a semicolon. Is this the correct interpretation? If so, what about the tab preceding the page number, shouldn’t that as well be part of the replacement?

I then tried to switch the ^t to ^y in the TOC and, in order to match the switch, replacing the with a ~y in the GREP to no avail. I am starting to feel bad asking you for help again but we are so close.

The link includes the current look of the TOC both ^t and ^y settings for the page number, the TOC with the chapter header para style highlighted and the Tabulation view of the para style used in for the chapter header. https://imgur.com/a/6ZNSp

As for the missing-subheader-problem I have an idea for a less risky solution that I will try out today

Oh! I now read your question again and realized that I got your question wrong. No, the training tips will not always be last in a chapter.

I just had a word with the author and actually there will be two TOC’s. First the regular one (not including the training tips) followed by one only including the training tips showing the page number for each training tip. That was very easy to do.

To sum up, I still have two issues
1) To get ‘Chapter’ ‘Chapter number’ ‘Chapter header’………………page # on one row correctly formatted
2) Have the sub chapters appear in a horizontal sequence with a separator of some sort. For now a dash will do

Yes, the Subheaders comes first and then the training tips. There will always be subheaders in a chapter but not necessarily any training tips

I would love to post a screenshot or two. One tiny problem though. I haven’t figured out how to attach screenshots in this forum. I can’t paste and there is no ‘upload file’ button.