Generating a formatted table of contents

I'm trying to generate a formatted TOC in Frame 8. When I generate it, it's in Times New Roman and not in the format I want. I've tried importing the formats I want from another TOC and manually making the changes, but when I need to update the TOC, it loses all the formatting.
How can I generate and update a TOC that contains formatting?

Melissa,
Both Riley and I are assuming that you use a standard format for your TOCs.
When we say "generate a new TOC." that means adding a TOC to the book file, then right-clicking it and running the Set Up TOC procedure by selecting what component file tags you want to list.
After you generate that TOC, TOC-specific tags are generated so that Heading1 in your chapters is represented as a Heading1TOC tag.
Where there may be a problem is if the formatted TOC lists different tags than your book does. If your book has H1s, for instance, and the previous book had Heading1s, the tags aren't going to automatically match up.
If you're importing all formats from a working TOC, that should also bring in a properly formatted Reference Page.
Art

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Is this possible? How can this be done?
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The TOC is formatted automatically and is what it is. You can change the appearance and formatting of the TOC text but not the text itself which is picked up from the document.
The only work around is to export the TOC and reimport it as plain text and then amend it.
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I'm using a TOC that Pages '09 created. I'd like to set page numbers to the right side and replace the two carriage returns after a chapter with one carriage return. Rather than this:
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Chapter 2 25
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Chapter 3 40
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Title of Chapter 1
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First you haveto use different Styles for the Chapter and the Title of chapter. Then you can change them separetly.
Turn on the Show invisibles in the View menu to see that you have a tab on each line. When you have change to two heading styles you can move or add a tab stop for the chapters. You can also uncheck numbers (page numbers that is) for Title of Chapter in the Inspector palette > Document > TOC
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You've just confused me.
My understanding of how this is set up is that either:
This is a book, and there is a master TOC that includes all book documents and a document-specific TOC in each component file, or
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I am creating a document in InDesign and want to generate a Table of Contents. I have just created a de facto ToC with Bookmarks for the exported PDF version of the file, but there seems to be no way to take this information and use it to creat an actual ToC in the ID file itself. My bookmark list contains the information for all the chapter and sub headings along with the page locations, all the data I need to create my ToC, but I can't find a way to do this. I don't understand why I have to use paragraph styles to set this up? It is overly complicated for my needs, added to that it is duplicating my work. If I have to set up paragraph styles for the print version and bookmarks for the PDF version, why can't one set of information be used to generate both version of a Toc?

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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/fr_webadmin.pdf
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