Can I override a certain Table of Contents feature?

Hello,
Basically I've got 2 main titles in my book. Each title is on two lines. Like this
Talks to
Parents and Teachers
I am using the table of contents feature to link to these titles. I've disabled the numbering feature so that in the contents they act as headings BUT
I want them on one line, such as
Talks to Parents and Teachers
Is there anyway to make this happen? I know I can delete the break manually, but whenever I update the table of contents it brings back the 2 lines...
Any ideas much appreciated.
Thanks

Haskett123 wrote:
Hello,
Basically I've got 2 main titles in my book. Each title is on two lines. Like this
Talks to
Parents and Teachers
I am using the table of contents feature to link to these titles. I've disabled the numbering feature so that in the contents they act as headings BUT
I want them on one line, such as
Talks to Parents and Teachers
Is there anyway to make this happen? I know I can delete the break manually, but whenever I update the table of contents it brings back the 2 lines...
Any ideas much appreciated.
Thanks
Thanks for asking. I always knew that an answer to this pesky problem would finally percolate to the tip of my tongue, and...
Try this:
* Create a paragraph style to use for these headings.
* Create the text on one line, tagged with the paragraph style.
* Create a character style with the No Break property.
* Starting from the character that should start the second line, apply the No Break character style to the end of the line.
* Manually increase the right indent of the heading until the text wraps to a second line.
* Create a paragraph style for the entry in TOC with a "normal" right indent.
[EDIT]
* In the TOC setup dialog box, choose the heading paragraph style for extraction by the TOC.
* Generate the TOC.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
Message was edited by: peter at knowhowpro

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