April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 42m
English
Manually building a table of contents for a large document is one of the punishments awaiting those who fail to use paragraph styles for headers and subheaders. InDesign’s ability to scour long or complex documents (including Book documents composed of many individual files) to automatically create a table of contents is one of the great rewards for using paragraph styles.
Consider this document: Each chapter header has a paragraph style called Chapter title applied to it. Major topics (like the one at the top of this page) have their own style, as do the headers under them (like “Preparation” just above). In this book’s table of contents, I chose to include the first three heading levels as its entries. ...
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