Hi
I've had a peculiar problem building a TOC for a book layout I've been doing in CS3. I'm not really used to creating TOC's since I usually work on newspapers/mags or shorter documents and the first few attempts came out a bit strange. I couldn't quite work out the structure of dialogue box but eventually found that everything I needed (title, author, pg no) was all there, they just needed their paragraph styles changing for the TOC page (only got them in their original style) and the order needed manually rearranging, which I did through cut and paste. A bit unwieldy, but it worked.
All went well until I repaginated the book. I didn't bother redoing the TOC since I thought I'd have to redo the whole page by hand again and all I needed to do was to change the page nos. But when I tried to do so, I kept getting the following error message:
The object you have chosen is in use by another hyperlink
The offending page no is undeletable, no matter how I try. And if I remove the paragraph return the error message spreads to the following page no. Can't work it out.
All text files were set as No Style before paragraph styles were applied in ID. They either came from Microsoft Word or Open Office (all from various sources, it's a compendium-style book). I had some trouble migrating the .docx files to the mac and I'm wondering if they contain formatting remnants that aren't apparent (I've had a look at the originals but can't find anything).
I have no intention of going back and redoing the offending chapters to build another TOC – it woudn't be that difficult to type out the TOC page by hand, but – well, what is ID for, if not this? (Among many other things, of course…)
If anyone can explain this, I'd be very grateful. And if anyone can point me in the direction of a good quality resource that explains TOC in all its manifest complexity (I know it's not, but it certainlyfelt that way for a while) I'd be equally grateful.
thanks
zeb
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