Contents Table in InDesign

Hi All,
I am creating a auto contents table in indesign, I have got it so it gives me the list I want, the problem is styling it, the problem I am having is I can't get the titles in the contents to change there style automatically, at the moment they are the same style that are in the magazine, so my contents is all in a large font size which Isn't good.
Any ideas?

>just got to work out how to get the numbers aligned on the right now...
Set a right-aligned tab as part of the TOC paragraph style. If you are likely to change the column width, you can use Find/Change to change the right-aligned tab to a right indent tab when you're done, and the numbers will move with the width of the frame.
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