PDF Bookmarks

We currently use FM11 to create PDF books that consist of 100 or more individual files (chapters). We manually create group sections which contain the individual chapters. The chapters use heading paragraph tags 1 thru 3. When the PDF book is created, the tags for each chapter are expanded in the bookmark view.  Is there a way to only show the chapter title without the paragraph tags expanding?  Thank you in advance.

If I understand you correctly, I think this is what you are looking for:
From book window, choose Format> Document> PDF Setup> Bookmarks tab.
Then choose the paragraph formats you want to include or exclude to
decide which bookmarks show up in the PDF. For those included, you can
adjust the nesting level by clicking the "Bookmark Level" double-arrow
buttons, and noting how many leading periods fall before the format's
name in the Include Paragraphs window. Each dot represents and
additional level of nesting.

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