Formatting for table of contents in KDP

[HareBrain]

I'm trying to create an ebook at the moment using Amazon's Kindle Create app. If possible, I'd like to have Table of Contents entries that aren't directly dependent on the text at the start of the chapter. That's because I'd like the chapter number and title to be on different lines and formatted differently on the chapter pages, but the only way I can find to have both number and title showing in the TOC is to put them on the same line.

What I want to do must be possible, because I have ebooks that use actual images for the chapter headings, but the text still appears in the TOC. But it might depend on professional publishing software.

I would also like to have nested TOC so the chapters appear as indented entries beneath the "Part" entries. Again, I've seen this done, but I can't find the way of doing it in Kindle Create. I've no idea if this would depend on doing something in the app, or how it's formatted in Word.

Thanks for any help.

 

[tinkerdan]

If you are using word and you are using the table of contents utility in references to make the TOC that creates hyperlinks between the chapter page and the TOC and if you edit the text in the TOC while maintaining the hyperlink then that should allow the new text to still serve its function.
I've not really tried this in the e-book but I have used it to remove the page numbers so I could send the same file as I used for the paper book. I am guessing that the hyperlinks are the important part of the equation in the e-book.

 

[HareBrain]

If you are using word

No, so far I'm just using Amazon's "Kindle Create" software, which creates the TOC directly from the chapter headings. It might be that what I want to do can only be done from within Word, so I might have a look into that.

 

[tinkerdan]

Never tried Kindle Create software.
I do everything in word and send the docx file up for conversion and always get what I expect from the output--so far.

Last person using Kindle Create, that I tried to help, seemed to always be talking apples to my oranges and he finally gave up trying to figure out what I was trying to tell him.

So, Good Luck.

If you have trouble figuring out Word--there are plenty of u-tube tutorials out there. Otherwise we could try swapping apples and oranges for a while.