Table of Contents Issue for ePub

I am trying to create a TOC for an ePub that looks like I want it to:
Chapter One: The Name of Chapter One
Chapter Two: The Name of Chapter Two
etc.
To do this:
I imported the ePub styles from the ePub sample document
On a page which begins a chapter I typed "Chapter X" and gave it the Chapter Number style
Under that I put the name of the chapter and gave it the Chapters style
I selected both the Chapter Number and Chapters styles in the TOC tab of the Inspector
The resulting TOC in the ePub document looks like this:
Chapter One
Name of Chapter One
Chapter Two
Name of Chapter Two
If I DEselect the Chapter Number style in the inspector the entire TOC gets messed up
How can I get the TOC to look like I want (see above).
Thanks.

Make sure the TOC is in the style source document
Thank you so much! This was the thing I did wrong. There had been another document marked for style source. Now it works perfectly.
Almute

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