Table of Contents; Missing Titles

Hello
I have a slight problem with TOC. Using ID cs 4 6.0.6.
It won't include more than 5 of the 26 articles that are in my magazine. I usually just solve this by doing it manually but i wanted this time to work as intented.
I have put all the titles of the articles as (Title style) so it should grasp that one, but then it only adds 5 of them and it adds them in the style of Title even if i said it should change the style to a (body matter) style.
Which makes it look like following:
Instead of putting it where I want it get this, only 5 titles out of more than 20 and with the incorrect style in this case Title style.
Why is it doing this?
[Edit] Is there some other information I should give to make the problem appear more clear to whoever is reading this?
//Sincerely Evi
Message was edited by: Evicos added Version and patchnumber

Right. TOC is driven by Paragraph styles, not character styles, and if you applied character styles to the headings to get the formatting you want, that also explains why they didn't take on the formatting you expected inside the TOC itself.
Character styles are used to format isolated text that needs to look differnt from the surrounding text in a paragraph -- a sort of "special case" formatting. Tha basic appearance of all the text in a paragraph is defined as part of the paragraph style.
There are two ways to change the formatting for special cases, character styles, and local overrides. Character styles themselves are not considered an override to the paragraph style, and are very powerful. For the most part they are used to do things like change the size, color or weight of the type, but not the face (though you can do that if you like), to empahsize a bit of text. The advantage of these "minimalist" character styles is that they aply the same attirbutes in any face, so if you edit the paragraph style to change the font, you don't need to also change the font in the character style -- if your style was just to add the bold attribute, your text will remain bold if the new font also has a weight named bold.
THere are complications, though, when bringing text with a character style or local formatting override into a TOC. Applied character styles and local formatting travel with the text and are applied on top of whatever paragraph style is defined for the TOC listings. Thankfully, there is a way around this, and that's to apply these styles in the main text as part of the paragraph style using nested styles or GREP styles (a more complex subject) rather than selecting the text specifically and applying a character style or local formatting. Since the styles are then part of the paragraph style, they do not manifest in the TOC when you change the paragraph style there (sorry if that's confusing).
Boittom line, though, in this case is probalby that you just need to use a properly defined paragraph style for your headings, without adding any character style or local overrides at all.

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