Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

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Generating and Updating a Table of Contents

One of the advantages of working in InDesign is that it contains advanced functionality that can be used to automate otherwise slow and laborious tasks, and creating a Table of Contents is a good example of this. By using Paragraph Styles carefully and consistently, you can generate a Table of Contents that can be easily updated, styled, and even reused in other InDesign documents.

In this chapter, we will look at how to generate a Table of Contents and the options available when doing so. We will look at styling your Table of Contents so that the styling is maintained when you update it, and we will update and edit an existing Table of Contents. Finally, we will learn how to reuse a Table of Contents ...