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I have searched for something to resolve a problem that has shown up here: How do I get \chaptername to appear in the table of contents?

I have tried the code from that thread. But I got an issue, that is, it adds the \chaptername even for appendix chapters:

Chapter 1. aaaaa
....
Chapter Appendix A

How can I resolve it?

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xuansamdinh
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At the start of the appendix, a redefinition of \cftchappresnum must be forwarded to the .toc file. I have appended the definition of \appendix to do so.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft,calc}
\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{\chaptername\space}
\setlength{\cftchapnumwidth}{\widthof{\textbf{Appendix~999~}}}
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\appendix{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{%
    \protect\renewcommand{\protect\cftchappresnum}{\appendixname\space}%
  }%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\setcounter{chapter}{500}
\chapter{Hello}
\appendix
\chapter{Hello again}
\end{document}

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lockstep
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  • Thanks for you reply! I dont know why, but it's seem that the problem is not complete resolved yet. It doesn't make effect on the first appendix chapter. And the result is:

    Chapter A Appendix tittle. Appendix B Appendix tittle.

     – xuansamdinh May 21 '12 at 21:44
  • @xuansamdinh Thanks for accepting my answer, but please also upvote it (this has to be done separately from accepting). – lockstep May 21 '12 at 21:55
  • Oh, it's suprise that it's doesn't effect to the first chapter when use \include to include appendix chapters, such as \include{appendA}. But when put these chapters directly to the main file or using the \input command, it's work nice! Could you improve the code for more nice working? Thank you! – xuansamdinh May 21 '12 at 21:58
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    @xuansamdinh Try to add \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand{\protect\cftchappresnum}{\appendixname\space}} at the start of your first "included" appendix chapter file. I suspect that it's a problem similar to the one solved in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50037/510. – lockstep May 21 '12 at 22:04