InDesign CC crashing updating Table of Contents

Keep getting the pictured error and InDesign crashing when I tick the "Make text anchor in source paragraph" to create an ePub compliant TOC.
You want the logs too?

This is a new feature in InDesign CC. It could be a bug. Does this happen in just one file, or in other files? What operating system?
Most of us haven't had a chance to use this feature yet.

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How to update a table of contents when the feature "update table of contents" is unavailable?

Hello folks,
I've been struggling all morning with this issue and am completely desperate.
First, some info:
- I am making a spanish versions of an english documents: everything in the original doc was then edited, including TOCs. What I got at first, was a first spanish document already filled with spanish content.
- I was not the primary creative of the document I'm workin on and am unable to get in touch with whoever that can be.
- My document is a 200 pages text only document, with 12 chapters and, at the beginning of each chapter, a specific TOC for that very chapter.
- Inside each chapter, there are only Sections and Subsections, no other style. Those are the two levels in the TOCs.
- There is also a General TOC at the beginning of the document: that one only shows the Chapter names and the page number where to locate them.
My problem:
- Somewhere along the way, from one doc to another, the TOCs stopped to update the page numbers automatically.
- Now I have sections and subsections that are shown in one page (for instance 204) but they actually are on page 135.
- When I try to update the TOCs, I stand on the TOC itself as I was told in many tutorials, but the "update table of contents" feature is unavailable, even in the main TOC at the very beginning of the doc.
It is like if I wasn't standing in the actual TOC, but there is no actual TOC anywhere that I could refer to.
What can I do? I am changing the wrong page numbers manually but, of course, that is not ideal... and it may become more and more tricky while I keep producing new documents each based on the previous one.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Warm regard from sunny Paris, France!
Sasha

You've just confused me.
My understanding of how this is set up is that either:
This is a book, and there is a master TOC that includes all book documents and a document-specific TOC in each component file, or
This is a single file and there is one master TOC that includes all sections and a section-specific TOC that includes only the individual section.
In the first case, I think you would want two TOC styles set up, one that includes the chapter heads (if I understood how you said this worked) for the for the master, and you would include all docs in the book when you generate it, and a second style for the individual chapters, with the subheadings you want to include.
In the second case, it would be similar, but instead of only one style to cover the section TOCS, I think you would need to create a unique set of pargraph styles for the headings in each section (they can all be the same format, based one section, just with unique names), and then make a TOC style for each section that includes only the styles from that section.
OK, wait a sec. I just reread what you said: "Another thing: when the numbers are "linked" and updating well, they display indide a little box. Not a text box, but a kind of little frame around the numbers. That frame makes it imposible to delete just one number: when the TOC says that Section 6.1 is in page 135, for example, you cannot delete just the 5, it deletes, not just the 3 numbers, but also the doted tab."
I think these are NOT normal TOCs created by using Layout > TOC (but you could replace them with ones that are, if you set up your styles properly and the text you want to include is appearing on the pages). Those little boxes you mention sound like cross-references, which should update automatically without any intervention at all. Unfortunately, cross-refs can be flakey, especially if they point to another document. I'd open the cross-refs panel and see if you need to recreate a bunch of links.

InDesign CS3 crashing adding table style...HELP!!

This issue started on Friday. I just starting working on a large document that will have many tables throughout, so I must use the table styles. Here is the order in which I do things to get the crash.
Place document from Word in to InDesign document
Highlight table to be changed
Convert text using paragraph styles
Alter column widths to fit page
Highlight entire table to select table style
Click desired table style
CRASH!!!!
I have tried the following things with NO LUCK:
Deleted adobefntX file multiple times (actually worked for a couple of hours first time I did it)
Deleted InDesign preferences (did nothing)
Re-created all "Styles" in InDesign (Character, Paragraph, Cell, & Table) (Did nothing)
Changed the order in which I altered the tables text and formatting (thinking it was just a silly order problem)
Unistalled and Re-installed CS3 (worked for 5 tables and then CRASH)
Updated ALL software (Adobe and Mac)
Started up in Safe mode and CRASH!!!
I realize from seraching for this problem on the web that I am probably the ONLY person having this issue, but I thought it was a font problem until I started in Safe Mode and still crashed. I am totally confused as to what I should do next. I am running on a
Model Name:    MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:    MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:    2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:    1
Total Number Of Cores:    2
L2 Cache:    3 MB
Memory:    4 GB
Bus Speed:    800 MHz
Boot ROM Version:    MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version (system):    1.27f1
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

I am not familiar with InDesign Interchange, do you think this will help?
That's why I suggested it. But you didn't answer my question: Is this happening with only one file? The reason I ask is because if one file is corrupted, saving to INX and back to INDD often clears out minor corruptions. If you're seeing this in many files it's unlikely they're all corrupt.
1. Convert text using paragraph styles - I meant modified "placed" text using character styles
Now I'm really confused. Your steps are:
Place document from Word in to InDesign document
Highlight table to be changed
Modify placed text using character styles
Are you really highlighting an entire table and applying a character style? While this will work to modify certain formatting aspects, it's not really the best approach. Character styles are for characters *within* a paragraph. Paragraph styles are for *entire* paragraphs. Each table cell contains at least one full paragraph, even if it's just a single number, a space, even if there's nothing there at all. If you want to format the contents of an entire cell or range of cells with the same formatting, use a paragraph style, not a character style. If you want to italicize one or two words in some text in a cell (the way I just did), then use a character style.
I really feel that the issue either stems from fonts or from placing the document from Word.
Could be. Cheap fonts are the cause of many problems in Indesign. Indesign is really picky about fonts. But let's try the easy fix first (INX). If you don't trust it, save the .inx to a new .indd filename (keep your old .indd file as a backup).
Ken

Error Message When Updating Table of Contents

I am working in FrameMaker 8. I am updating a generated table of contents that was created by another person. When I update the TOC, the updating is completed successfully in the TOC, but I am getting the following book error message:
I believe that this TOC was originally generated in the previous version of FrameMaker.
How can I resolve this issue concerning print settings for color and color definitions?
Brenda George
Desk: (724) 720-8491
[email protected]

The console message is indicating that the colour settings are inconsistent between the various files in the books, perhaps they're set to different colour models or have different overprint settings - many reasons. The fastest way to fix it is to import the Color settings from the first file in the book to the rest of the files in the book.

Updating Table of Contents

I would really like to have the option to update just the page numbers vs. the entire table of contents...

Hi Dominic & Mark,
The podcast i suggested show how to set up an index and table of contents and have them update across a book as you change the content of the book including page numbers and chapter setup. I definitely think the solution to Marks problems is in these podcasts but like me the first time i looked at them as I was doing my project that I have just finished I had to go over it more than once before I got everything to do what It did and what I wanted it to do. There is "Generate/Update command" as part of the booklet but I can't/don't explain it correctly thats why it is better to look at the podcasts. I remember something about Nested Styles as part of it as well. It has been a while since I did it and I don't get to do large project like that that often.
Regards Bj.

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

CS6 Table of Contents Update Greyed out

I have one long indesign cs6 document I'm using to create an ebook. Right now, it is one long story, and the Update Table of Contents option is grey, along with the option "Replace existing Table of Contents" in the create Table of Contents menu. My cursor is on the Table of Contents page, doesn't matter, still grey.
Is this happening because I have one long document instead of having a different "story" for each chapter?
I've tried:
creating a new Table of Contents with different names
renaming the book
renewing indesign preferences
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Thank you Peter for all your help.
I read the answer somewhere, but can't remember where, so thank you to the person who had the correct answer, even though I can't remember who or where you are!
Place the Table of Contents on a hidden layer. I now have the entire book file on one layer, and the TOC at the beginning of the long doc on a 2nd layer that is hidden, and everything is working perfectly. They are two separate "stories," because when the TOC is part of the main "story," the TOC prints regardless of what the articles panel says (what DOES that articles panel do, anyway? So far I've found it to be pretty ineffective).
Uploaded a book to pubit last night, waiting to hear on errors, but I didn't have to touch the html... not yet at least.
I will report back if there pubit finds errors.
Thanks again!

Finished script: Use grep find/change to fill in a supplied table of contents

This script is now complete, and has been the subject of most of my previous posts. Just in case anyone wanted to know what the finished script ended as, here it is.
Thanks so much to all. A lot of really helpful folks on this board are very responsible for the success of this task. This script is to be one of hopefully many in the creation of our records. But it's a huge leap forward. Thanks again to everyone that helped.
Cheers,
~Nate
Task:
Automatically find town names in listings, and fill in table of contents template on page 2 accordingly.
Example of page 2 toc, initially:
Example of a page of content. The town names are what need to be referenced on the TOC:
Example of page 2 toc once script is finished:
Because of the need to include the transaction dates on the TOC (comes as a provided, tagged-text file), a simple Indesign-generated TOC can't be used alone.
This script uses an Indesign-generated TOC that's on a master page called "T-tocGen" ... It then uses grep search and replaces to grab the needed information, and insert it into the page 2 TOC.
The script will update a generated TOC and then search for an instance of a page number, and town name. The generated toc lists all included towns in the following format:
(line start)## tab townName(line end)
In Grep, this would be (please note, extra \ for \d and \t ... javascript needs that for some reason):
^\\d+\\t(.*)$
After the script gets the info it needs from a found instance of the above, it replaces that line with "---", to prevent that line from being picked up once again.
The script with then place the needed page number in it's rightful place on page 2, replacing the XX.
A while loop is used to repeat the above process until there are no longer any instances of "^\\d+\\t(.*)$" present.
Not every town runs every issue, so once the script is done, it removes all remaining instance of "XX" on the page 2 TOC.
FINAL CODE:
TOC replace
This script will use grep find/change methods to apply page numbers in
tocGen to the XX's on page2TOC.
// define the text frame of generated TOC
    var tocGenFrame = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0);
// udpate generated TOC ... store contents in tocGenStuff
    var tocGenStuff = updateTOCGen();
// set variable for while loop
var okGo = "1";
// while okGo isn't 0
while(okGo.length!=0)
// get town info from tocGen
getCurrentTown();
// replace XX's with tocGen info
replaceTown();
// grep find ... any remaining towns with page numbers in tocGen?
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t(.*)$";
// set current value of okGo ... with any instances of above grep find in tocGen
okGo = tocGenFrame.findGrep();
// grep find/change all leftover XXs in page2TOC
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^XX\\t";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "\\t";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
// clear grep prefs
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// functions                  //
function getCurrentTown()
// grep options
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
// grep find: startLine anyDigits tab anyCharacters endLine
      app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
      app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t(.*)$";
// get grep find results
currentGen = tocGenFrame.findGrep();
// store grep results content into currentLine
currentLine = currentGen[0].contents;
// match to get array of grep found items
currentMatch = currentGen[0].contents.match("^\\d+\\t(.*)$");
// second found item is town name, store as currentTown
currentTown = currentMatch[1];
// change current line to --- now that data has been grabbed
// this is because loop will continue as long as the above grep find yields a result
       app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^\\d+\\t"+currentTown+"$";
              app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "---";
            tocGenFrame.changeGrep();
function replaceTown()
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
// find: XX currentTown .... replace with: currentLine
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^XX\\t"+currentTown+" \\(";
    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = currentLine+" \(";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
function updateTOCGen()
//set vars ... toc text frame, toc master pag
    var tocGen = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0);
    var tocGenPage = document.masterSpreads.item("T-tocGen").pages.item(0);
//SELECT the text frame generatedTOC on the master TOC
    tocGen.select();
//Update Table of Contents by script menu action:
    app.scriptMenuActions.itemByID(71442).invoke();
//Deselect selection of text frame holding your TOC:
    app.select(null);
//store contents of toc text frame in variable
    var tocGenText = tocGen.contents;
//return contents of tocGen
    return tocGenText;

Thanks for the reply.
You are correct but the problem is there are three rows, One row is 100% black, the second is 60% black and the third is 40% black. I want to change the black to blue, the 60% black to an orange and the 40% black to a light shaded blue. In the find/change option you can select the tint you want to find and replace but yea.. does work on table cells.. oddly enough.

Why can't I update a table of contents in Windows InDesign CS 5.5?

I have clicked in a table of contents frame, but on my layout menu, "udpate table of contents" is grayed out.
I have "moved" my table of contents from an InDesign doc I created weeks ago into a new doc. I can update it in the old doc, but when it's copied into the new doc, the update option is no longer available.
Why can't I updated it once it's in another doc so I can use its TOC styles & layouts rather than having to redefine those all over again?
Thanks!

Loading the TOC style gave me the fonts I wanted, but not the dots & the page numbers that were in the doc from which I loaded the styles. My TOC has no page numbers now, but I do like the font.
Is there a trick to getting the page number display with the dots to show up?

Table of Contents crashes on update

I am running InDesign CS4. I have a book file with 5 files, most of which use a data merge. I have a Table of Contents that I processed successfully until today. I wanted to include a new paragraph tag in the TOC. Each time I try to do so, InDesign crashes. I do not use preferences so wasn't sure if I needed to clean out those settings and not clear how to do that. I tried exporting the TOC file to an IDML, but still have the same problem. Any help is appreciated.

Unfortunately, Windows isn't very helpful with reports, so we resort to pure guesswork and have to ask a bunch of questions to look for clues.
Where do we stand now? You tried the new book from rebuilt files approach and it didn't work, right?
Do you have a font manager? Do you have any third-party plugins installed for ID?
What happens if you do the following:
Create a new file with the same document setup as the one that is giving you trouble. Go to the pages panel and select Master A, then rename it to something like zz to be sure it does not have the same name as any master in the file causing trouble.
Open the problem file, select all the pages in the Pages panel by clicking on the first page, holding the shift key and clicking on the last page, then open the panel flyout menu and select Move Pages...
In the move Dialog that will, insert the pages BEFORE page 1 and choose the new file you just made as the destination. Don't delete the pages after moving.
Back in the new file, delete the original page 1 which is now the last page in the file. IF you redefined [Basic Paragraph] in your other file, you'll want to redfine it to match in the new file. Save with a brand new name.
Does that new file crash when you work with the TOC?
If it still crashes...
What happens if you create a brand new user account on your PC and try to work in that one?
You mentioned above something about a version that does not crash? Does that mean you have a older backup you could use, if all else fails?

How do I update only the page numbers of a table of contents in Indesign CS6?

Hi there!
Please help! I'm making a medical book with more then 1300 pages and about 40 different table of contents.
I want to update only the page numbers on all the table of contents. But I only see the option to update the complete table of contents.
I saw on other forums that this is a familiar and very old problem. Did Adobe already fixed this?

hahaha thanks no I won't Using cross-references in the future! but sending the request anyway; nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Thanks again!

InDesign Cs4: crashes when trying to set up auto - Table of contents

Using the automatic Table of Content set up.... system has crashed three times now -- I have completely shut down my Mac -- tried again, and still crashes....
Any ideas??
Thank you, Colleen

Export the indd as idml, open this and save it as a new indd and work with the new file.

What is the code for updating a table of content?

I'm looking online and not finding a command list or something helpful. I'm also on a government computer so a bunch of sites are blocked for security or something. I am making a script that does a few things and one needs to be updating the TOC but I cant find the command.
I wish this software had something simular to a program called MAYA has. "echo all commands" in the script editor so anything you do shows all code being exicuted.

Theoretically, if you are using Adobe's own ESTK to write your scripts, all commands can be found in the Help menu. Then again, searching in there is needlessly made difficult (i.e., you have to know exactly what you are searching for before you can find it). So (modest cough) ... Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Table of Contents
The command you are looking for is not in the "Table of Content Suite" since that only describes the format of the contents. It is a Document method: Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Document -- look for createTOC (this stupid editor doesn't show it but the link already points to the correct place -- perhaps this editor was written by "We Also Brought You The ESTK").
Searching through the thousands of pages is easier if you download the CHM version and use a good CHM viewer. Check out
http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html

InDesign book crashes on update to TOC

I am working on a book in InDesign in CS4. I am creating a fairbook with an advertiser's index (table of contents) over multiple "chapters". I can create a TOC on every chapter individually, but when I try to include all docs in the book, CS4 stops working and closes.
We used CS4 last year, and it worked flawlessly.
I have installed all recent updates as of this morning. I have checked and cleaned up font errors.
Any help would be WONDERFUL!!!

I did try to isolate chapters & it would work one time then the next it wouldn't. I did a little more research & decided to be brave and delete my preferences file & it worked!
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Indesign cc crash on selecting multiple table row

If i try to select more than a row or the entire column indesign crash and quit. exported to cs6 and opened it works perfectly
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ih8nu2cfc1rjs3/tableproblem.indd

Hi,
I'm experiencing exactly the same error - this is on a MacPro4.1 with Mountain Lion. I've repaired permissions and all the hardware checks out. Seems to crash on table selection - also in overprint the redraw on table selections is all over the place (selecting the top row seems to select 2 below it, switching to standard view seems to display correctly). CC seems very buggy, hopefully I can save my work as a template and use CS6 to finish up (going to print in less than 2 hours!)
Worth noting that there is no other program running in the background and it happens from a clean reboot.
Here's the report:
Process:         Adobe InDesign CC [227]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe InDesign CC/Adobe InDesign CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CC
Identifier:      com.adobe.InDesign
Version:         9.0.0.244 (9000)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [118]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-06-27 15:37:57.208 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          123663 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           4
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 81445 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      EE196355-9B41-C217-A3F7-7C12613A3228
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
-->
    __TEXT                 0000000100000000-0000000100006000 [   24K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe InDesign CC/Adobe InDesign CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CC
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.adobe.InDesign.Widgets              0x0000000111d308a3 0x111cec000 + 280739
1   com.adobe.InDesign.Tables UI            0x00000001181d6954 0x118153000 + 538964
2   com.adobe.InDesign.Tables UI            0x00000001181d5fc7 0x118153000 + 536519
3   com.adobe.InDesign.Tables UI            0x00000001181d8b42 0x118153000 + 547650
4   com.adobe.InDesign.Table Model          0x0000000113abca9b 0x113aa4000 + 101019
5   com.adobe.InDesign.Table Model          0x0000000113abc0b5 0x113aa4000 + 98485
6   com.adobe.InDesign.Table Model          0x0000000113aba2a5 0x113aa4000 + 90789
7   com.adobe.InDesign.Table Model          0x0000000113b5404e 0x113aa4000 + 720974
8   com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x00000001133d3859 0x113267000 + 1493081
9   com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x00000001133e11a9 0x113267000 + 1548713
10 com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x000000011340e518 0x113267000 + 1733912
11 com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x0000000113409613 0x113267000 + 1713683
12 com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x000000011342847a 0x113267000 + 1840250
13 com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x000000011342833a 0x113267000 + 1839930
14 com.adobe.InDesign.Text                 0x00000001134220a8 0x113267000 + 1814696

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