Table of contents Heading

Dear Support Community,
I am writing a report. I added a table of contents. When my TOC was shorter than one page, the heading of the whole TOC stayed where it was - above it.
But when I add enough headlines for the TOC, that it gets longer than one page, the TOC jumps over to the next page. The heading stays where it was.
How can I fix my headline, so that it stays directly over the TOC? The TOC itself is perfect, I just have to write Table of contents over it. I can't move it.
Thank you for your help!

There is no easy or elegant way to do this as far as I know.
ID uses paragraph styles to generate the TOC, so each paragraph becomes a new listing. You can gain the appearance of two paragraphs in the running text while having only one buy using a forced line break (Shift + Enter) betweent he heading and sub-heading, which will combine the two into a single listing in the TOC, but you will still need to replace the line breaks with your choice of separator (you used a tab in your example, but I might pick an em space) after the TOC has been generated. That's easy to do with Find/Change.
Styling becomes a bit more of an issue when you work this way if the sub-headaing has a different format from the main heading. You must apply a character style to one part or the other to change it, and you almost certainly need to do that using a nested style rather than applying the character style by slecting the text, or worse, selecting text and applying local changes. Because formatting applied as a nested style is part of the paragraph style definition it is not carried into your TOC if you use a different paragraph style inside the TOC, but manually applied styles and local formatting are preserved as overrides to any style applied inside the TOC.
The other typical approach to this problem is to add a non-printing bit of text with a unique paragraph style set up for the purpose, and to use that style instead of the heading/subheading styles to make the TOC. Your non-printing text should be entered exactly as you wish it to read in the TOC. I personally like to use and anchored object for this so it will move with the headings, and you can stick it up in the top margin out of the way. I usually make this red, too, so it is obvious to anyone editing the file.

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