From the course: Designing a Book
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Formatting the table of contents - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Formatting the table of contents
- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we generated a dynamic table of contents. Structurally, it is sound. Unfortunately, it looks terrible, but it's very easily fixed. All we need to do is change the definitions of the styles that are applied. I'll begin at the top, and we have a style called TOC Title. This was an auto-generated style. When I select the text, I see here that it has acquired an unwanted character style, so I'll start by just setting that back to None. I'll change the typeface to Tribute Italic, the size will be 24, and the leading will be 30. I'll now come to the style, which has a plus after it, right click, and choose Redefine Style to incorporate those overwrites into the style definition. Now we have six part paragraphs and each of them is in two pieces. We need to use a nested style here. So TOC Head is the style. I'm going to edit this. Let me see if I can move this dialogue box out of the way so that we can see the changes. I'm actually just going to cancel…
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