Problem
Why does updating a book strip all formatting from existing TOC entries? I’ve already imported paragraph formats to the TOC file. I haven’t altered the text of the entries or their page numbers, just applied formatting from the paragraph designer. Clicking “default font” doesn’t restore applied formats.
I would understand if new entries picked up during the update had no formatting, but I can’t see why entries that match what’s already there and don’t change would have their formatting stripped out.
This makes updating the TOC take two, three, four times as long as it should!
Solution
You need to set up how you want your TOC to look on its reference page. If you already have a TOC set up correctly, use File > Import > Formats, deselect All, then select Reference Pages and Paragraph Tags, and import.
The next time you update the book, the TOC will be in the correct formatting.
If you don’t have one set up correctly, you’ll have to do it.
- Click View > Reference Pages
- Find the reference page labeled TOC. It’ll probably have something there already with paragraph tag labels such as Heading1TOC. Use the paragraph designer to format your <heading_style>TOC tags on this page.
- When you’re done, click View > Body Pages and then regenerate the book
Also, when you format <heading_style>TOC in Paragraph Designer, be sure to click Update All, not Apply.
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