@Stephanie Moore — Thanks, Stephanie, for taking time to write to me on Thanksgiving! I hope you’ve had a lovely day.

After I posted the question — several days after — I did discover that the TOC had landed at the back of the document! I wanted to come back and post that update but couldn’t find my question again <she said with embarrassment> so I’ve been hoping someone would respond, so I could at least admit that faux pas.

But you have reminded me of something for sure. I, too, watched Anne-Marie’s videos, and I remember how she explained how InD processes epubs left to right. But somehow, it stuck in my head as applying only to fixed epubs, not flowable. But what you’ve said totally makes sense in the big scheme of things, and I’ll just bet this is the reason the TOC lands at the rear. In the one doc I’ve processed where it landed at the front, it was just “the next thing” in order, before the main flow began. I never could figure out why it worked in there and not in the doc I was having problems with when I posted, but your reply now makes me think that MUST be the answer. So thank you so much for that!

I also appreciate your suggestion about trying the anchor. When I work with that document again, I’ll give that a go. Don’t be surprised if you don’t see an answer posted again for a bit — I’m taking a step back so my hair can grow back in, LOL! I yanked nearly all of it out trying to solve this mystery. (Not really, but wanted to!) When I am not quite so crazy over this topic, I’ll give it another shot. Even if I don’t progress on to epubs/ebooks as I’d hoped (even though I can export the .epub, I still can’t find a good non-commercial way to create a .mobi, so probably will leave the whole shebang to some vendor somewhere), I may still need this skill for a few other projects.

Thanks again so much for the great info and the great reminder. And Happy Thanksgiving. :) — Charlotte

Hi, All. I’m searching the forums and blogs for help with my own EPUB TOC problem, but the majority (maybe all) the comments I’m finding have to do with exporting to EPUB from an .indb. My manuscript is set up as one .indd file. I have a TOC within the pages but NOT, as I understand should be the case, on a master page nor in a primary text frame, but rather just on several inserted pages in the flow — just not in the primary flow — of pages. When I export (via File>Export>Epub flowable), I DO end up with a NAV TOC, so apparently, the EPUB is recognizing the TOC in my doc. However, the internal TOC pages do not show up in the EPUB itself when I view it in my previewers (Adobe Digital Editions and Readme), nor if I take it a step further and process as a .mobi. They just aren’t there at all. I really need to solve this problem pronto and don’t know what else to try. As I say, the pages are NOT set up on master pages; nor are they set to non-print, etc. No doubt I’m doing something wrong, or NOT doing something I should. But I have no clue what it might be. Any thoughts, anyone? I know I’m addressing a thread that is a couple years old but am hoping someone who was dealing with this as an .indb problem might have also stumbled across this situation by now with a standalone .indd file. Thanks in advance for any help!