How to Style Text in a Table of Contents in InDesign

Learn how to style your InDesign table of contents entries with entry styles!

Pariah Burke Pariah Burke

In this InDesign how-to video, Pariah Burke explains all about entry styles: dedicated paragraph styles just for your table of contents. He demonstrates how to create these styles before, after, or during table of contents generation. He even reveals how InDesign will do some of the work for you by automatically generating paragraph styles.

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This article was last modified on December 12, 2025

This article was first published on December 12, 2025

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