Table of Contents - Title style

Hi there,
some issues (for me) when I'm trying to give a paragraph style to the TITLE within a Table of Contents. This is my starting point:
Then I select "indice_TOC" for the title style and I "save the style" (replacing previuos style):
Then I close the panel but when I reopen the TOC I find the title style has not been saved:
The only way to get the saved style is to manage styles from "Table of Contents Styles". Yes, I know, this is a possible workaround but the problem is that I can save any other changement in this window save (sic!) the title style. Please give a look and let me know where I'm wrong.
Thanks, K.

Rh is using Word's default TOC style.
If you are generating using the project's CSS, or any other CSS, then you are stuck with fixing each document.
If you generate to a Word template, then open the template and modify the TOC style to be left aligned. I just tried it and it works fine.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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