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• • July 7, 2017 at 7:29 am #95928
    Anonymous

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    Hi
    I’m new to indesign and I have up to now been doing really well. I am designing a Roleplaying Rulebook and I have done each chapter as a separate Doc, so now I have finished and need to combine all them docs and create a contents page, but how do I do that?

    I have created a book but that lets me create a PDF of them all but not a contents page or index and without combining all the docs I don’t understand how the contents page will pick up all the pages.

    A bit lost here if anyone can help.

    Thanks

  • July 7, 2017 at 11:58 am #95936
    Masood Ahmad

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    Try this:
    https://creativepro.com/downloads/MergeFiles-2016.zip

  • July 7, 2017 at 12:00 pm #95937
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    In addition, try to learn the book features

  • July 7, 2017 at 3:40 pm #95940
    Lindsey Martin

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    You need to create a new document for front matter (title page, copyright page, table of contents, introduction, half title — whatever you want to include) and place it at the beginning of the book. You will have to set up the numbering of the book as well if you want the front matter to use a sequence of roman numerals and let the body of the publication begin at 1 in the sequence of arabic numerals. (There are some refinements to this practice but let’s leave that for the moment.)

    Then you have to define a table of contents (Layout > Table of Contents …) by listing the paragraph styles that should be included in the TofC and assigning a paragraph style to be applied to the entries after they have been added to the TofC. Be sure to choose Options > Include Book Documents. When you are satisfied with the TofC generated, save the TofC style so you can reuse it.

    This should get you started.

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