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Creating a mini TOC or 'chapter overview' TOC

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    • September 13, 2011 at 11:34 am #60503
      mccooll
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      I have successfully created a TOC for my document, which consists of multiple sections and well-defined paragraph styles.

      I need to create a 'mini TOC' or a chapter overview TOC listing heading 1 text within each section. Does anyone know if InDesign supports more than one TOC or how to accomplish this?

      I rejected the option to create a list of cross-references; these would dynamically update but there are too many instances to manually create each CR.

    • September 13, 2011 at 12:17 pm #60504
      Adam Jury
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      Make a new Table of Contents style for the mini-TOC and use that; be sure that “Create PDF bookmarks” isn't ticked in it.

      (Always use TOC styles, even if you have only one TOC in a document.)

      If you have multiple chapters in one InDesign file, I think the best way to approach this is to make one “mini-TOC” that covers all the chapters, and then just flow it onto the chapter-intro pages that you'll need to place it on.

      I regularly use multiple TOCs in the same document: I use TOCs on a master page to create hyperlinked navigation throughout the PDF, and then a normal TOC at the front of the book. Haven't run into any issues.

    • September 13, 2011 at 12:25 pm #60505
      mccooll
      Member

      Thanks a million for your quick response and practical input. This was absurdly simple.

      —–> The KEY to getting this to work was removing the check for 'Create PDF bookmarks', because my previous attempts were defunct.

    • September 13, 2011 at 8:52 pm #60524
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      Wow that is news to me … the bit about the Create PDF bookmarks being the problem child. Thanks for the info Adam!

    • September 14, 2011 at 7:40 pm #60531
      Adam Jury
      Member

      I honestly don't know if it creates any sort of “problems” beyond “I don't want two bookmarks for the same thing in my PDF” :-)

    • September 16, 2011 at 1:40 pm #60548
      Alan Gilbertson
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      A good find, nonetheless. In hindsight, it has perfect engineering logic to it. There are several examples in ID of things that make total sense from an engineer's viewpoint, but are baffling, or at least counter-intuitive, when seen from the other side of the UI.

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