Here I have a folder with InDesign documents
I'll make an InDesign book
from this with a table of contents.
if I open up a document
I've already created paragraph styles
creating paragraph styles
is required, so you need to plan ahead which will be used for the ToC
You'll need this for when you generate your
table of contents
I have my table of contents template doc
and it shares the same paragraph styles
To start creating my book,
I'll go file > new > book.
I'll just call this book,
save it in the same folder as my InDesign documents.
I'll select add, select all my documents.
Open.
Now I'm going to rearrange
my book.
And as I rearrange, see that it's all numbered
correctly.
So you need to be sure
the books
all share the same paragraph styles and have correct numbering.
I'm going to set the doc
Table of contents as the source of my styles and paragraph styles
And I can sync the styles for the entire book by selecting
sync all, to ensure
that they share the same styles.
I'll just close my table of contents, I'm not going to save yet
I'll open up this book
So I have
the titles
and content done now I'll open up Table of Contents.
I'll close this.
Now I'm going to generate
my table of contents
I'll go layout >
Table of contents.
I'll just remove these styles for now
default style is selected.
I'll name my title for my table of contents, Contents.
I'll now add the paragraph styles needed to generate the table of contents
So I want my headline
and title
and I can choose to have
page numbers before, after, or no page number.
I'll leave it as
and I'm just going to leave this as it is.
These are more options.
So if you don't see these options, be sure to show more options
and to include book documents.
So I'll select.
Okay.
Now that should have generated and now I have my cursor changed
click to place, and now you can see
I've generated my contents but the styling I will change
So ensure that I have the selected
the table of contents frame, go layout
I'll just select table of contents again
and I'm going to change
the style based on the paragraph styles I already have created
So this will be
ToC topic
and this one will be ToC category.
And then I'll say, okay
and that has updated to
the paragraph styles that I have here.
But if I'm not happy with
the numbers
to edit that, since this is the source style document,
I can simply right click to edit
the category or topic style for this doc
I have tabs already
so I will just clear them
choose the right justified tab
I want it to be about there
and I want to add leading
So I'll just put a full stop or period
If it doesn't show up, I can simply select/deselect preview
and that's how I can format my numbers
adjust my tabs, my leading,
maybe be exactly on that line
and okay.
And I can do the same for the next one,
which is ToC topic
go tabs,
make sure that right tab is selected and
added there
Preview
and say I don't want numbers
I can just go back to our table of contents
No page number and
no page number and okay.
And that will remove the numbers.
I can preview each
book document here.
I can click on each one and see if all is correct
that they match the table of contents
I can go through all of them
and right now I can continue to
ensure that
if I want to have this one, make sure that it has the correct
paragraph style selected
the correct paragraph style will
make sure that it shows up in the table of contents.
this is not set to the ToC paragraph style so it does show up in the table contents.
if I'm happy with my book, I can go ahead
save my book, or I can select all
and then I can export to PDF
preflight, export to ePUB or print the book.
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