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• • April 22, 2015 at 12:33 pm #74882
    Laura Barge

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    Hello!

    I have been working with InDesign for about 8 months now. It seems that whatever task I am needing it to accomplish, I just dig or research long enough into the help archives and I find the answer. InDesign is amazing!

    Now I have a problem and don’t know how to solve it. I have a graphic table of contents in my document. You know, a graphic with a large number next to it; the title of the article and author below the picture. I would like a way to automatically generate these numbers by having them linked to some object on the page where the article starts. So that if I rearrange pages, the graphic table of contents reflects the correct pages numbers.

    Any help?

    Laura

  • April 22, 2015 at 1:32 pm #74883
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I would suggest using Cross References instead of the normal table of content feature.

  • April 22, 2015 at 2:30 pm #74886
    Laura Barge

    Member

    Thank you so much! As usual, I am seeing how much easier this will make my publishing life and want to cry that I didn’t know it before! LOL

    Laura

  • April 22, 2015 at 2:52 pm #74887
    Laura Barge

    Member

    Hmmmm. One further little issue. My magazine is perfect bound, so I have to have separate files for the cover and the text as per the printer. Currently part of my TOC is on the inside cover. Is there any way I can do a cross-reference to the text file from the cover file?

    Please, oh please??

    Laura

  • April 22, 2015 at 2:57 pm #74888
    Laura Barge

    Member

    Okay, I think I just answered my own question. I keep the “Destination Document” as the text file, right, as I am inserting the cross reference into the cover file?

  • April 22, 2015 at 3:18 pm #74889
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yeah, I don’t like doing x-refs from one document to another, but it usually works pretty well. :-)

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