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Table of Contents wuth “Book” feature.

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    • June 1, 2022 at 4:43 pm #14366151
      Rich Harvey
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      Okay … Indesign 2022 or whatever its called … I have created seventeen different documents. All short stories for an upcoming anthology.

      I created a new “Book” … and I began adding documents. In the first document, which includes all the title pages, dedications, and copyright notices, I planned to insert a Table of Contents page. I selected the paragraphs for story title and author names. All I got was “Contents.” (My customization.

      Hopefully I’m missing something, but I hoped the Contents would add the story titles and author names from each document, since it’s of this same “Book.”

    • June 1, 2022 at 4:44 pm #14366300
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      There is a checkbox at the bottom of the Table of Contents dialog box that says “Include Book Documents”. Did you have that on?
      Also, the book panel must be visible when you create the TOC.

    • June 1, 2022 at 5:52 pm #14366301
      Rich Harvey
      Participant

      David, you hit the nail on the head. I never even noticed that checkbox.

      Of course, now the problem is that I’m getting story title and page number on one line, followed by author name and same page number underneath. There must be a method of getting story title / author name / page number on the same line … with the little dots leading from name to page number.

      I’m experimenting since the new InDesign has the automatic update (unlike old CS3 where a change meant generating a new TOC from scratch each time).

    • June 2, 2022 at 8:24 am #14366332
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      We have a number of articles about TOCs here, including:

      Create a Table of Contents in InDesign


      and

      Three Small TOC Tricks

      Use InDesign Table of Contents to Make PDF Bookmarks

      InDesign Template Essentials: Tables of Contents

      How to Add Chapter Numbers in a Table of Contents in InDesign

      Fixing TOC Levels That Refuse to Behave

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