InDesign style problems on TOC

I'm having problems with my paragraph styles. I'm working on a large document with imported text. About half way through, all of a sudden I couldn't get my styles to work correctly. For example, I'd select body copy and instead it would format as a header. I checked the styles and they were correct. I read in a thread to try using alt+shift when selecting the style and that worked. But now I'm trying to generate the TOC and I'm having the same problem. Nothing works. Plus the styling it is applying is inconsistent even with the same style selected.

I think that you should try to post some screenshots; what you're describing makes no sense. If all TOC entries
1) are marked with the same para style;
2) have no character styles applied; and,
3) have no overrides
then they should look identical to one another.
So, if you post a screenshot of your TOC with the Paragraph Style palette visible, and you can verify that your Character Styles palette is completely empty, then we might be able to diagnose your problem.
The techniques I use to make sure that my styles have no overrides:
a) I have "Clear Overrides" mapped to control-shift-numlock enter. So, I can select text and whack that key combo, and know that it is free of para style overrides.
b) Then I can put my insertion point at the beginning of the first text box, and use control-shift-downarrow to select whole paragraphs at a time. When I do so, I can watch the para styles palette to see if the "+" appears indicating that I still have an override in that paragraph.
c) I use styles in my TOC that have names that are similar to to the actual subheaders in the body text. So, "Semibold Subhead" gets added to the TOC, and is styled with "Semibold Subhead TOC" like so:

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Hi,
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Dave_DM wrote:
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I sucessfully created my first InDesign table of contents. WooHooo!
There is something I haven't been able to figure out. I would like the page number to appear on the far right side of the page, as apposed to being place right next to the entry. Also, I would like to have a traditional dotted line between the entry and the page number.
So far I haven't been able to figure this out. Is someone willing to direct me in the right direction?

In the style you create for the TOC listings (you should create a special style) you can set a right-aligned tab, and define a leader (the dots) if you like. but I much prefer to use a Right Indent tab. The metacharacter for that is ^y rather than ^t in the field for Between Entry and Number. The advantage of the right indent tab is that it always aligns on furthest right edge in the frame (minus any right indent applied to the paragraph) and adjusts with the frame if you change the frame dimensions.
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If you use this method you don't need to set a tab stop, but you do want a nested style in the paragrpah style definition:
None (or some other character style) up to 1 right indent tab,
Your new underline style through 1 right indent tab,
another style for the page number if you like, through anything that won't appear before the end, or nothing at all after the underline style.

TOC Styles problem

Could someone please help me out with this small but really irritating problem?
When making the table of contents it looks like this
1:title
A:subtitle
B:...
2:...
C...
I would like to start in the second paragraph wit a subtitle A not C
It sometimes helps when using tab in front of the subtitle or choosing manually in the inspector to start at....
But the toc remains the same... abcd through all subparagraphs...
Hope this is somewhat clear
Could anyone help me out please?
Thx!

Did you really read carefully the pointed technote ?
It clearly explain that for customized formats like the requested one, you must export to rtf then edit the exported TOC by hand.
Then, at last, replace in the Pages document, the automated TOC by the edited rtf one.
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Issue with right aligning of Character Styles in my TOC

Hello all!
I'm working on my very first book project and I have been reading soooo many threads on here for the past hour, but i either just don't get it, or i didn't find what i needed still, so i already apologize in case this very question has been answered before ...
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what i want is for the page number to appear before the entry. so for the page number i have set up it's own TOC page number character style.
NOW
the page number appears left aligned. I have checked the character styles palette and there i can't set a tab for the page number to appear right aligned ...
how do i get this page number to be right aligned? and THEN, how do i specify the distance between the page number and the entry? there is "tab character"mentioned on the TOC dialogue box to specify the distance between page number and entry, but then do i have to go in manually every time something changes? that can't be it? i have seen in the paragraphy styles palette there is a tab section ... tried to input the tabs so the number would appear right aligned and the distance to the entry, but nothing happened, then the number is stuck right on the entry once the TOC is generated ...
does this make any sense?
will attach a screenshot to try to clarify the issue ...
hope you can help me out.
thanks a lot in advance!
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sta-cy

sta-cy wrote:
sorry to have bugged you.
Seriously, if we didn't enjoy this stuff we wouln't be here. It's not like we even get T-shirts. :-P
An awful lot of what I know and am able to pass on comes from having spent waaaaay to much time here reading about odd problems and trying to figure out ways to solve them. I'd never seen a requst like yours until the other day, but then up pops Joel with a similar story, and what do you know, this may not be such a strange thing to want at all. Hopefully your question, and the work we put into trying to find an answer, has not only helped you, but some other users who come along next week or next year.
Everybody starts someplace and at some point in time. There's no shame in being a beginner, and less in asking for help when you need it, especially after you put in the effort you did on your own to try to find a solution. It's also true that some folks are more design oriented and others more process oriented, and that's just the way it is. This forum has many, many, followers who are expert in different areas of InDesign (even the engineers who write the program are not experts in all the various parts) and are here to share what they know as volunteers. You are always welcome here, especially when the question is as intersting as this one.

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I write the documentation for a software package. Recently the package has had two new add-ons that require their own manuals, so I reused my original doc and cleared it out to use for the new packages. All good so far until I want to do the ToC. In the original docs, each bit is split into its own story editor, but with the new manuals everything is all in one story and I think that is causing problems with the ToC because sometimes I'll get sections with nothing in them while other Sections have too many subsections. I've been through and checked my styles, but the only way around it right now is to view the ToC in the Story Editor and drag/drop the subsections to the right places. Right now these new manuals are not even 30 pages each, with four or five sections but this is not a tenable situation. I use InDesign 5.5 under Windows. Anyone got any idea? Obviously more detail can be provided.
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I've had a problem with generating tables of contents in InDesign CS3 and which persists in InDesign CS4.
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I'm using RoboHelp 8 and MS Word 2007. I've modified the Style Mapping.dot Word template in the project folder (as opposed to the generic one in the RoboHelp installation folder). I've done the mapping in the Printed Document Appearance dialog box. The problem is that RoboHelp seems to totally ignore or override the styles in the template. I hope that someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Let me list some of the problems:
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I just created a new project and set it up to map to the Style Mapping template. That is obviously a new copy taken from the installation folder.
I opened the template in Word and used the Change Style pod (CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + S). There I removed numbering from the TOC style. When I generated a document, there was no numbering.
Dropspots can be part of a paragraph so there should be no indenting. In this sentence "part of a paragraph" could be a dropspot so indenting would be a nonsense.
Using the supplied template neither were indented.
That all suggests to me that a fresh look at your in project template needs another review.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

Paragraph Style Problem

I have the weirdest problem that I cannot yet understand. I have a 76-page book that has at TOC plus 10 chapters. The book was created last year in ID CS3, and everything worked fine. I have updated it into CS4, and everything appeared to be working normally until I discovered this problem. My master chapter for synchronizing is Chapter 2 in the book panel. All fonts are loaded and present.
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Here I translated the script from Russian into English for you. BTW, it is based on a script written by Dave Saunders (thanks Dave for it) — I totally reworked it to my needs. You should replace paragraph style names, font names, find-search strings, etc. with your own stuff.
Kasyan
// Description: Script for InDesign CS3
// Version 4
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// Removes imported styles
// Adds non-breaking space before some abbreviations in text. For example: В, У, гг., млрд.
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// Removes hyperlinks
// Copyright © 2008 Kasyan Servetsky
#target indesign
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//--------------------------------- Progressbar ---------------------------------
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          var paraStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.add( {     basedOn:"[No Paragraph Style]",
                                                                                                    name:"Body Text",
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                                                                                                    firstLineIndent:2,
                                                                                                    leftIndent:0,
                                                                                                    rightIndent:0,
                                                                                                    spaceBefore:0,
                                                                                                    spaceAfter:0,
                                                                                                    justification:Justification.LEFT_JUSTIFIED,
                                                                                                    appliedFont:"TimesPalKasN\tRegular",
                                                                                                    pointSize:8.5,
                                                                                                    leading:10.6,
                                                                                                    kerningMethod:"Metrics",
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                                                                                                    hyphenateCapitalizedWords:true,
                                                                                                    hyphenation:true,
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                                                                                                    hyphenateWordsLongerThan:5,
                                                                                                    hyphenateLadderLimit:3,
                                                                                                    hyphenationZone:12.7,
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        var myCharStyle = myDoc.characterStyles.add({name:myStyles[j], fontStyle:myStyles[j]});
          app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
          app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = noCharStyle;
          app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = myStyles[j];
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          app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
          app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = noCharStyle;
          app.findTextPreferences.position = Position[myPosns[j]];
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          myTextFrame.parentStory.changeText();
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function myReplaceNonCMYK(){
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          if (myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Registration" && myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Paper" && myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Cyan" && myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Magenta" && myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Yellow" && myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].name != "Black") {
               if ((myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].space != ColorSpace.cmyk) || (myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].model != ColorModel.process)){
                    myProblems = myProblems + 1;
                    myDoc.colors[myCounter-1].remove ("Black")
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function removeImportedStyles(){
     var paraStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("Body Text");
     var noneCharaStyle = myDoc.characterStyles.item("[None]");
     for(var myCounter = myDoc.paragraphStyles.length-1; myCounter >= 2; myCounter--){
          if (myDoc.paragraphStyles[myCounter].imported == true ) {
               myDoc.paragraphStyles[myCounter].remove(paraStyle);
     for(var myCounter = myDoc.characterStyles.length-1; myCounter >= 2; myCounter--){
          if (myDoc.characterStyles[myCounter].imported == true) {
               myDoc.characterStyles[myCounter].remove(noneCharaStyle);
// Processing tables
function removeInTables(){
     if (myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.everyItem().tables.length > 0) {
          if (myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("05. TABL_BODY") == null) {
               myTableStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.add({name:"05. TABL_BODY", appliedFont:"HeliosKas\tCondensed Regular", pointSize:8, leading:8});
          else {myTableStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("05. TABL_BODY")}
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     myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().clearOverrides(OverrideType.all);
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     myTxtReplace =     [ // TEXT
                                        [" А ", " А^S"],
                                        [" В ", " В^S"],
                                        [" С ", " С^S"],
                                        [" К ", " К^S"],
                                        [" О ", " О^S"],
                                        [" У ", " У^S"],
                                        [" На ", " На^S"],
                                        [" По ", " По^S"],
                                        [" Из ", " Из^S"],
                                        ["г-н ", "г-н^S"],
                                        ["г-на ", "г-на^S"],
                                        ["г-ну ", "г-ну^S"],
                                        [" т", " ^Sт"],
                                        [" г.", " ^Sг."],
                                        [" гг.", " ^Sгг."],
                                        [" грн.", " ^Sгрн."],
                                        [" коп.", " ^Sкоп."],
                                        [" тыс", " ^Sтыс"],
                                        [" млн", " ^Sмлн"],
                                        [" млрд", " ^Sмлрд"],
                                        [" т.п.", " ^Sт.п."],
                                        [" т.д.", " ^Sт.д."],
                                        [" др.", " ^Sдр."],
                                        [" км", " ^Sкм"],
                                        ["см. стр.", "см.^Sстр."],
                                        [" ^p", "^p"],
                                        [" —", "^S—"],
                                        [" —", "^S—"],
                                        ["№ ", "№"],
                                        ["$ ", "$"],
                                        ["EUR ", "EUR"],
     myGrpReplace =     [ // GREP
                                        ["[~m~>~f~|~S~s~<~/~.~3~4~% ]{2,}", " "], // Multiple Space to Single Space
                                        ["--", "~_"] // Dash Dash to Em-dash
                                        // ["~b~b+", "\\r"], Multiple Return to Single Return
function replaceTxt() {
     app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
     app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = true;
     app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
     for (i = 0; i < myTxtReplace.length; i++) {
          var myCurArray = myTxtReplace[i];
          app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = myCurArray[0];
          app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = myCurArray[1];
          myTextFrame.parentStory.changeText();
     app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
function replaceGrep() {
     app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     for (i = 0; i < myGrpReplace.length; i++) {
          var myCurArray = myGrpReplace[i];
          app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = myCurArray[0];
          app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = myCurArray[1];
          myTextFrame.parentStory.changeGrep();
     app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
     app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myRemoveHyperLinks(){
     if (myDoc.hyperlinks.length > 0){
          for(var myCounter = myDoc.hyperlinks.length; myCounter > 0 ; myCounter--){
               myProblems++;
               myDoc.hyperlinks[myCounter - 1].remove();

Problem with TOC

I made 2 styles
titles of lessons
titles of sections.
I created a table of contents (TOC) using the styles, however half of the titles do not show.
I checked all titles styles to be sure they are using the appropriate ones and they are.
Here is the automatic table missing several titles. What is doing this. I had no problem in CS4 ever and since I have CS5 this problem has appears in several projects.
Here is the table the way it should look.

If it's a conversion issue, it usually works better to do the export from the original version, rather than to wait and try the export from CS5 after editing. I've gotten into the habit of exporting all complex files to .inx in the original, then opeing that to make changes in CS5. So far that's worked well, and seems to work for others who have reported issues when opening a legacy .indd file directly.
So, Do you still have CS4? If so, lets try something else. Open the .idml file you exported from CS5 in CS4, then export THAT to .inx, and finally, open teh .inx in CS5. If you haven't used any new unsuppoted features, this should work to give you a document with the same layout, but there may be some changes in text flow so check carefully for oversets and headings that might have moved. Try the TOC again...

Problem with TOC levels (Bug?)

Hi!
Im using Layout -> Table of contents to generate the TOC for my magazine. My pages basically have two paragraph styles that will be used in the TOC window. They are Section and Tittle, and are defined as paragraph style and well syncronized with the other articles of the magazine, im using a book to organize the files.
In the Window of TOC a choose for the first style Section pragraph style and add to the include paragraph style, next it's added tittle paragraph style to the include paragraph style.
Im getting
Tittle1.......................3
Section1
Tittle2......................4
Section2
INSTEAD OF
Section1
Tittle1.......................3
Section2
Tittle2......................4
Section style box is in level 1 and Tittle style box is in level 2 in TOC window. It make senses to me, when im defining the paragraph styles for TOC, but is different from what i expected.
It's a Bug on the CS4 for Windows ? Anyone have a problem similiar ?
Thanks

It was the relative position of the section to the tittle frame. Thank you very much!
The Section was in the right corner of the page and the tittle was centered in the midle of the page.
I have made that because the layout of my magazine has the sections on the upper right.
I will have to create a hidden layer in the upper left of the page to solve the problem.
Do you have another solution, or a more elegant solution to solve this situation in particular ?
thank you very much!
best regards

InDesign Fonts problem Bookmark Script

Dear All,
We developed one script for creation of Bookmark in InDesign CS2. When we are runnign this script content formatting is getting anmoly changed, I analyzed InDesign file and came to know that due to a font called "Trade Gothic Bold No. 2" due to this font all formatting of the content is getting change.
But in script I am not doing anything with fonts, only we are untagging the content to take the reference for creation of bookmark. The script is working very fine for other files from last 6-7 months but only this file is having this kind of problem.
If any one know the reason please let me know, I know this might be not related to scripting forum but if we recieved any issue related to it. Please let me know the solutions also how to aviod these kind of problem.
Regards,
Rajeev

In all likelihood, you have based one or more of your paragraph styles on "[Basic Paragraph]". If the Basic Paragraph style differs from document to document, then when you paste text in it will change to match Basic Paragraph in this doc instead.
Edit the styles in both documents to be based on "No Style" instead.

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