Extra Paragraph in Table of Contents

I have a TOC set up in a three-column text frame, and have it set to balance columns. When I generate the TOC, it gives me an extra paragraph return at the end, which messes up the column balance. ny way of fixing this?

I notice that too... Do you know if there's any fix (or work around) for that?

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Multiple table of contents in document

Hi there,
I'm new in FM8. I recently received a document in FM8. The structure of the document is as follows:
Every file of the document corresponds to a chapter. Each chapter contains a table of contents for its subheaders and paragraphs.
Table of contents (here are the chapter from 1 to 10, only the chapters)
Next is Chapter 1 which include a small table of contents with all subheads and paragraphs (e.g. 1.1, 1.1.1 and so on)
The same goes chapter 2 to 10.
That's not all.
Chapter 7, 8, 9 and 10 are placed in different folders coresponding with chapters title. The rest of them (chapter 1 to 6) are placed all in the same folder.
For chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10 I manage to update the second table of contents (which contains subheads and paragraphs - e.g. 1.1, 1.1.1 etc.)
In the main folder which contains rest of the chapters there are TOC files for the main Table of contents and for the subeahds and paragraohs contents corresponding to each chapter. Here I have problems with updating them because when I open the book and update it only the main TOC will be updated. The problem appears when I create PDF. Because after creating PDF when I click on a chapter name in the TOC it will bring me to the chapter I want but when I click on the TOC for subheads/paragraphs nothing happened, except for chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10.
So, to be more explicit.
When I click on chapter 7 in pdf, acrobat will send me to the chapter 7 where I find another TOC in wich if I click on subead 7.3 it will send me to the page that includes subhead 7.3. Instead if I click on chapter 4 it will bring me to the page coresponding for chapter 4 but there if I click on subhead 4.3 nothing will happen.
I will attach an example of that PDF.
The file structure looks like that:
Chapter 7 folder:
     - book
     - TOC file for chapter 7
     - chapter 7 (same structure goes for chapter 8, 9 and 10)
Project folder
     - book (it contains all files from chapter 1 to 10)
     - TOC file (the main TOC)
     - TOC files for chapters
     - chapters' files
Thank you. Any help will be appreciated.
Excuse my poor written english.
Trully yours,
Fagaras Codrut Sebastian

Hi,
if you got an FM book which contains separate TOCs for each chapter, it was most likely created using either
- the Systec TOOLBOX (http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/toolbox.php) or
- FrameScript (http://www.framescript.com/) with an itl script named "DocToc" (http://www.i-frame.itl.info/i-frame-base.html, website currently only available in German)
Without these solutions, you won't be able to comfortably handle a book like yours.
Regards,
Bernd

How to get only partial text of a paragraph into the table of content?

Hi guys,
currently I'm working on a manuscript based on the publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Unfortunately, there is some sort of heading that's placed right in front of further text. Here an example:
+This is my heading.+ Now ordinary text formatted differently should follow.
Does anyone here know, how to get the text of the heading (but not the following text) into the table of content? For as far as I know I can't format the heading as a different paragraph than the following text.
By the way, I use pages'08.
Thanks for your help

Hi Dennis,
thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately I already tried that and it didn't work. I have created several unique styles. Problem is, I need two diferent styles in *one paragraph* - one style for the "heading", which is consistent to the APA manual not an own paragraph (sorry, not my idea...), and another style for the following text. As my example above shows, the heading is followed by usual text and I may not press return after the heading and switch to a new paragraph..
It has to look exactly like this:
+heading in italics.+ Now heading is followed by usual text without changing the paragraph or starting a new line. Blurb blurb blurb whatsoever blurb blurb. The text goes on an on and an on you see.
I can't format the heading differently than the text (because if I try, the whole paragraph is formatted this way) and so I can't add just the heading to the TOC. Do you see what my problem is? Got any other suggestion?

Right-Indenting the last paragraph line in a Table Of Contents entry

Hi,
I'm using CS4 In Design.
I'm trying to format the paragraph styles for my Table of Contents.
I have the tab leaders working, everything looks good except that I have entries that have multiple lines, and I can't find a way to format the TOC paragraphs so that the lines BEFORE the last line are right-indented more than the last line (which of course contains the tab leads and page number).
I'd like to not have to go into my text and manually add Right Index Tabs in every heading instance that will be pulled into the TOC.
Thanks,
Robert

> How DOES one set last lines that don't leave room for leaders?
One manually breaks the line short (or lives with no leaders) using a
shift-return. I usually finesse TOCs after I think the client is mostly
done with correcting.
> I now note that some of my neat page numbers are nudged to the right...
I'm not sure what that means. If you're using a right-aligned tab (or
two tabs, if you want to right-align the ends of the leaders) your
numbers should right-align on the tab setting. Exactly. Nothing should
be "nudged to the right".
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

My table of contents does not use the entry style I select for words in the paragraph that have character styles applied to them in the chapter, so some of the letters are showing up as green, which is fine in the chapter but not in the TOC.

My table of contents does not use the entry style I select for words in the paragraph that have character styles applied to them in the chapter, so some of the letters, specifically parameters, are showing up green, which is fine in the chapter but not in the TOC. I can manually fix this in the TOC by changing the character style to none after the toc has been generated, but I don't want to do this.

What application are you running? Please ask this in the forum of the product you're using.

When opening a word document, I get this:The table of contents is empty because none of the paragraph styles selected in the Document Inspector are used in the document. Is there a way to solve this?

The table of contents is empty because none of the paragraph styles selected in the Document Inspector are used in the document.
The above is what I get when I open a word document. Is there a way to solve this?

Hmmm. Apply the styles?
Peter

How do I create a table of contents with a nested style paragraph?

I'm having difficulty figuring out how to generate my Table of Contents with a nested style. In this screen shot, "SPECIAL EVENTS" is considered level one and the pink circled "Fittest Firm Challenge" is level 2. Because it is a nested style, it is picking up the entire paragraph. I don't want to put in a paragraph break because that would add too much space in the magazine since there are a lot of other listings like this. I've tried reading through other people's discussions but I'm totally lost with the explanations. Is there a simple workaround or solution to this?

apricotanna wrote:
I'm having difficulty figuring out how to generate my Table of Contents with a nested style. In this screen shot, "SPECIAL EVENTS" is considered level one and the pink circled "Fittest Firm Challenge" is level 2. Because it is a nested style, it is picking up the entire paragraph. I don't want to put in a paragraph break because that would add too much space in the magazine since there are a lot of other listings like this. I've tried reading through other people's discussions but I'm totally lost with the explanations. Is there a simple workaround or solution to this?
You're asking InDesign to do something it's not designed to do, namely, to treat a nested-style section of a paragraph as an independent paragraph. That's called a "run-in paragraph" in Adobe FrameMaker, and it's been a beloved feature there since FrameMaker was introduced in '89, about ten years before InDesign.
You can make a formal feature enhancement request here: Wishform Many InDesign features have come into being from user requests, so lend your voice, and be patient. Explain why you think a run-in paragraph feature would be useful.
Others have asked about this, and there are a number of workarounds that may or may not be suitable for you. Let's hope that some of the more-intense forum folks can help you with a useful search term for this forum, so that you can review what's been suggested and tried in the past, and what results you can expect.
In the meantime, you might consider inserting the second-level heading in an inline anchored text frame in the paragraph. It will be an independent paragraph but you can adjust appear on the same line as following paragraph. Then you can extract it for the TOC.
Here's an example:
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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IBooks Author table of contents does recognize paragraph styles

The video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2p08-NmqfQ
shows that using iBooks Author I should be able to have text that is formatted with specific Paragraph Styles show automatically in the Table of Contents. But for me that does not work. My version of ibooksAuthor is version 2.1.1 ( the latest) , under OS 10.9.1 (the latest) on an iMac.
The video shows the Inspector for TOC as a separate window and shows explicitly, under Sections, the items Copyright, Dedication, Foreword, Section and Section Text. It also has two Paragraph styles listed, Heading 1 and Heading 2.
This set of TOC entries is available for me with templates from Landscape with Portrait but NOT with templates of Portrait. The templates available for Portrait do not list, in the TOC Inspector, Heading 1 or Heading 2.
Furthermore, the Portrait templates do NOT allow me to add any Paragraph style to the list (the control for adding Paragraph Styles to the list is grayed out), although the Landscape templates DO allow me to add any Paragraph style.
However, when, with a Landscape template (e.g. Basic) I format text as one of the paragraph styles Header 1, Header 2, Chapter, Section, it does NOT automatically show up in the TOC, though if I add a new section it does automatically show up. The TOC only lists Chapter and Section if these have been added from the menu bar.
When I use a Portrait template (e.g. Basic or any other) and format text as one of the Paragraph Styles Chapter or Section that text does not show up in the TOC. And the control for adding Paragraph Styles to the list is grayed out: I cannot add Header 1 or Header 2. The TOC only lists Chapter and Section if these have been added from the menu bar.
No matter what template I use, if I assign a paragraph style to some text, it does not show up in the TOC. And with Portrait templates, which is what I want to use, I cannot adde any paragraph styles to the TOC Inspector in Portrait templates.

The iBA Help has info on: table of contents
Which includes:
Each book comes with a table of contents that is updated automatically. You can view the table of contents at any time by selecting Table of Contents in the sidebar. The table of contents includes a default set of items, but you can change which items appear. A table of contents can include:
Chapter and section titles: All chapter and section titles are included in the table of contents by default. If you remove a section from the table of contents, all other sections that use the same layout are removed as well.
Text that uses specified paragraph styles: By default, the table of contents includes all paragraphs in the book that use the Heading 1 and Heading 2 style, but you can include whichever styles you like. Paragraph styles appear in the table of contents only in portrait orientation. See Format text using styles.
The way the table of contents looks depends on the current page orientation. In landscape orientation (shown below), each chapter has its own contents page, with navigation buttons at the bottom. In portrait orientation, the entire book’s table of contents is visible as an expandable list.
Add or remove items in the table of contents
If the Document inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the Document Inspector button.
Click the TOC button.
Do either or both of the following:
To add an item: Click the Add pop-up menu , choose Add Paragraph Style, and choose an option from the submenu.
To remove an item: Select the item you want to remove and click the Delete button .

How do I get rid of the extra table of contents that appears following the Pages export to epub?

When I export my document to epub out of Pages and then open it in ibooks (or any other ereader for that matter) an extra table of contents with links to the document sections appears at the beginning. This toc has its own numbering system--with its numbers set in front of those I have assigned. This toc is ugly and superfluous and doesn't seem to have anything to do with the table of contents available in the dropdown menu used while actually reading the document. How do I get rid of this extra table of contents? I'm sure I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find a way to remove it. Thanks for any help with this problem.

Answer available from TomV256: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5486013?start=15&tstart=0

Table of contents isn't showing the paragraph style I've set it up with

I've made a table of contents in my document, and I've set up a character style called TOC body text, which has settings as belowL
However when I click OK to create the TOC, the text comes out in all caps size 24, like this:
This is the same as the style in which the headers appear on their pages within the document:
(NB I've typed the headers out in sentence case, then selected all caps here, rather than typing them out with caps lock on):
I want the headers on the contents page to appear the same style as the body copy throughout, however then seem to be retaining their header style.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Rebecca

Thanks for your reply! I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong though - at the moment I have TOC Body Text which is a paragraph style applied to the entry, and body which is a character style applied to the number and the between. I think that's what you're suggesting, but I already have it set up like that and it's still not working?
Thanks
Rebecca

Extra Table of Contents entry

Has anybody seen an issue with iBooks Author where they get an extra blank Table of Contents entry at the beginning of the book?
In iBooks Author, my TOC shows 10 entries. Yet when it is exported to ibooks format, the ibook contains 11 TOC entries, with the first one being blank.
The template I used has a placeholder for Intro Media which I did not use, and I'm wondering if this is part of the problem. Yet I can't find anywhere to disable putting Intro Media into the book, and because the TOC entry is blank, I can't tell what it is actually trying to point to.
Thanks,
Katrina

I believe it was the first example. Here's a screenshot that sort of illustrates the problem.
Chapter 1 - Introduction, is actually the 4th TOC entry, but is the 5th highlighted dot on the bottom (there are title, copyright, and dedication pages prior). I don't have a screenshot of what's displayed when the first dot is highlighted (the error condition). Note a total of 11 dots at the bottom.
Interestingly, the following screenshot comes from the same reading session, I believe, and the TOC looks fine.
When I asked my tester to try to obtain a screenshot of the blank entry, he reloaded the file and the problem had disappeared. Note the now correct 10 dots at the bottom, with title page correctly highlighted as first.
So, thanks for your help KT, but I'm going to have to chalk this one up to an unreproducible glitch, or something strange on first-time loads. Reminds me of the infamous software testing line: "works on my machine". ;-)

Is it possible to create table of contents without having paragraph style ?

Hi all
I have designed my magazine for school project in indesign including 20 pages ,now I wanted to make table of contents but I have difficultly to make I watched some tutorial online but it seems that I had to make paragraph style . actually I do not know anything about paragraph style and I just designed my pages manually ,anyone can help me please ?

zidane010h wrote:
actually I do not know anything about paragraph style and I just designed my pages manually
This would be a good time to learn about styles, and if this is a class project they should have covered styles in your class.
The built-in TOC feature depends on paragraph styles. Without them you'll be stuck making the TOC manually (though you can use cross-refernces to keep it up to date, but that's an even more advanced concept than styles).

How can I change the paragraph style of the Table of Contents entries themselves?

From what I can see, all Table of Contents entries are the same font, size, indentation and layout when the book is viewed in Portrait mode on an iPad. I have long subheadings in my Table of Contents, and they get truncated!
How can I modify the style definition of the TOC entries themselves so that they will display in a smaller font size with less indenting, etc.?

Modifying the TOC: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2752?viewlocale=en_US
Have you tried altering the style of the default items on the TOC page?

Table of Contents vanishes when trying to update or regenerate in CS6

I'm working with InDesign CS6 on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
This is an old, legacy document. Today, I needed to remove two pages, so of course, I need to update my table of contents and index. I had no problems with the index - it regenerated just fine. The TOC is another matter. I clicked Layout > Update Table of Contents. I got the message stating that the contents was updated. However, what actually happened was the TOC text vanished! And, it actually is gone because I can see two empty paragraph markers where the TOC used to be. I've tried regenerating it instead of doing the update. Same result - it's gone.
I'm still fairly new to InDesign, so I'm not sure what I can do to troubleshoot this. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Sounds like ID doesn't think there are any paragraphs with the style names you've selected for inclusion.
But I'm not a fan of direct conversion of legacy files because these sorts of things, or worse, happen a lot. Try this: Remove minor corruption by exporting

Problem with Sections and Table of Contents

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You have started your document with a Page Layout template. TOC doesn't work with text boxes. You need to use a Word Processing document and have the text in the main text layer.
In the New from Template Chooser you can see the types in the left side bar.

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