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Ari Singer
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Very easy. Follow along:

  1. Make sure that the ‘subpages’ and the ‘chapter’ text have separate paragraph styles (so that the TOC builder can find them separately).
  2. Go to Layout > Table of Contents to define your TOC. Make sure that More Options is activated. (You can find its button on the right below the Save Style button).
  3. On the right there’s a list of all the paragraph styles in your document. Select the style that you used for the chapter openings and click << Add, Then do the same for the subpages style. On the left you’ll see both styles: ‘Chapter’ will be on top (‘parent’) and ‘subpages’ will be below it, indented (‘child’).
  4. Select the parent entry (‘chapter’) on the left. On the bottom you can set up a lot of options for the ‘Chapter’ entry in the TOC (such as the paragraph style to use when displayed in the TOC, or to sort it alphabetically and more), but what concerns us is only two settings. First, make sure that Level: is set to 1. Secondly, from the Page Number dropdown menu, select No Page Number. Then select on the left the ‘subpages’ entry, give it any settings that you want, but leave the Page Number options to either After Entry or Before Entry (whichever you prefer), and make sure that the Level: is set to 2.
  5. When done, hit OK, and the TOC will be ready to be placed anywhere you wish.

I hope this clarified things, not the other way around…

This article was last modified on May 24, 2016

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