Reply To: TOC export ePub issue

Hi everyone, I've had a very frustrating time with getting a clickable TOC (table of contents) when exporting to epub from indesign cs6 (and I think similar things are true for cs5.5) thanks to those of you who posted before I found quite a bit useful.

But I have found the following:

It's tricky and small changes remove the TOC when you export to epub. So here is what I've found that works:

You have to have a TOC inserted into the main document before you export.

It has to be not linked to the rest of your book.

It has to the very first thing after your cover image. Even inserting 1 page ahead of it removed the TOC on export to epub.

This will give you a linkable TOC when you export to epub and one you see in your document won't be there (so you can have one with page numbers in the main document but not in the epub).

It can be a different style to the actual TOC in your book so you can use different paragraph styles to define the print and the epub contents.

Make sure you change TOC styler to the one you've made on export (it automatically comes up with none).

Hope this helps – I had to sart with a complely clean document and spend hours finding out these gems.