I will say that I HATE making hyperlinks from one InDesign document to another. They are notoriously terrible and troublesome. One idea: make sure all the InDesign documents are open when you make the hyperlink and when you make the PDF. Or, better yet, if you can put all the InDesign documents into a single INDD file, you're likely to be happier in the long run.

There are a number of resources… check out: https://creativepro.com/grep

It's like it keeps coming around and around, each year! Amazing.

Happy holidays everyone, from all of us at InDesignSecrets!

InDesign has never had a way to show pages horizontally in the document window, but the Pages panel might do what you want:

https://creativepro.com/cre…..design.php

Otherwise, you'd have to export the pages as images and view it elsewhere.

Ah! A picture's worth a thousand words!

You could do this with a paragraph rule… well, one paragraph, but two rules (above and below):

Here's a snippet you can place in your document to get you started. (Look for the half rule paragraph style.)

Great question! This is not obvious: Choose Content Placement Options from the data merge panel menu and turn on the checkbox labeled Remove Blank Lines for Empty Fields. (This also shows up in the Options tab of the Create Merged Document dialog box.) I should write a blog post about that!

I'm not sure I understand. Are you talking about footnote numbering, or making the footnote text go across pages?

Check the Type > Document Footnote Options dialog box for some help.

Also, search this site for “endnotes”. Unfortunately, InDesign does not do endnotes itself, but there are some scripts you can use.

I can't think of any clever solution immediately. Maybe something with conditional text? Or perhaps put the changed text in an opaque frame above the actual TOC, so you cannot see the “real” toc text, but can see the numbers?