Updating TOC Wipes Formatting

[Fred Ridder]

Performing an Update Book operation doesn't strip all formatting from existing TOC entries, because one of the first things it does is *delete* all TOC entries--all the paragraphs--so that it can rebuild the TOC on the legitimate assumption that some of them have changed or that the order or population of headings has changed. When it rebuilds the TOC it will use the formatting that you saved as the TOC file's paragraph catalog when you set up the formatting.

But note that importing the paragraph formats from your chapter file to your TOC file probably will not produce the desired result because the TOC has its own set of unique formats. For example, your chapter files may have Heading1 and Heading2 styles, but the TOC needs to have Heading1TOC and Heading2TOC styles. If you do not have a paragraph catalog that has all the appropriate *TOC styles, the paragraphs that appear when Update Book regenerates the TOC will have default formatting, and this may be what you are seeing.

-Fred Ridder

Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:43:30 -0700
Subject: Updating TOC Wipes Formatting
From: karendesign at gmail.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com

Hi Framers,

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!

Thanks,
--Karen


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