The default styles for a Writer Table of Contents are very resistant to change and the instructions on reformatting don't reflect what I see before me. Manual formatting works fine, but goes away with each 'update' run. Is there a way to manually format and Table of Contents with Styles that will stick? OR, can anyone direct me to a better set of instructions on How to Format a Contents page?
Modify the 'Contents Heading' and 'Contents 1 to 10' styles:
Consider that this answer is refering to the default styles used to format a TOC, but the style mapping between heading level and TOC level (Heading 1 in the document --> Contents 1 in the TOC) can be changed in the Styles tab of the "Insert Index/Table" dialog.
This modifies the Paragraph Styles. But there are also Character Styles that are adjustable.
I spent hours trying to get my TOC to use the fonts I specified in the Contents 1 etc. Paragraph Styles, not understanding that it was still applying Default Style CHARACTER STYLE!
Sorry, no joy. F11 controls the volume of the internet radio on my Mac. Certainly, I can open Styles and Formatting, but any changes I make are erased by the next 'update.' I have a simple Contents with two levels: a Chapter Name in small caps and below an explanatory line in smaller default text. LO insists on attaching the Chapter's page number reference to the explanatory line such that Chapters without the explanatory line are unnumbered in the Contents. LO also wants to number my Chapters. In LO 4.1 I never had any problems inserting a simple Table of Contents. With 4.2 I will have to return to the era before Styles and construct a Contents manually. OK, now I've got it and you are quite right. One minor point: the default Level 1 header was underlined and could not be changed from the Modify panel (may be a bug?), but it did change and update from the tool bar (turn underline off).
I'm talking blindly here, but I guess that, in your Mac, F11 is achieved by pressing Fn + Volume Up.
As for losing the changes, my guess is that you are directly editing the table of contents, and that is expected. The instructions I posted are correct: edit the Contents 1 style for modifying the formatting for the ToC entries that corresponds to lines taken from the Heading 1 style, and so on.
Asked: 2015-03-03 19:26:11 +0200
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