Table of contents empty

When I generate a Table of Contents based on the H1 style in my document, It creates a text box with just a title and I don't know why! I've googled it but the only thing I see is people saying "make sure Include Book Documents" is ticked, but that tick box is greyed out and to my knowledge, it is not needed for this document. Any Ideas?

I have a specific style set up (similary to body text) to dress the table of contents at 11pt. Overset text was my thought too! but its actually just an empty paragraph with a title. I've attached an image to help explain.

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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

Empty entry in table of contents

I have created a couple of table of contents recently and in every instance they added a blank entry at the end. In most cases this is OK as I can either delete it or simply force the entry to be overset but I'd prefer it not be created at all. Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do to fix it or keep it from happening in the first place?

If you "Show Invisible Characters", does it display as a paragraph break, or a soft line break, or perhaps as something else?
A quick test shows that ID will not include totally empty paragraphs that are tagged with one of your include-in-TOC style paragraph styles. If there is just a single space on that line, ID will not consider it to be empty and so it will appear in your TOC -- but followed with a page number, as per instructions. Only if you happened to tag one-space paragraphs with some style and that same style is to be included in your TOC without a page number, you would see it as a blank line.
(Peter was a bit faster and has made more TOCs than I --. Yep, that blank at the end comes and goes of its own free will.)

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

I have just purchased pages. Both my iMac and MacBook have Lion. I do not have the "sections" button on the toolbar. When I open the "inspector" and try to insert a Table of Contents, the "paragraph styles" pane is empty. How can I correct these problems as I would like to use pages for a family story

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.

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?
When I first started I made a title page and then pasted in my first story from a .TXT file. After cleaning up I went back to the front a couple of empty lines ahead of the story and typed in the story title. Unlarged the font size and centered it, then

You can't do that. This is what the Pages User Guide, downloadable from your Pages Help menu, says:
Creating and Updating a Table of Contents
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
You can do it manually though.

How to create a Table of Contents using Pages 09?

Hi guys,
I have little problems creating a Table of Contents in Pages, though it seems quite simple. I'm working with the template 'Term Paper' and I use paragraph styles (Title, Heading I, II, etc.). I have some very long documents (about 80 pages long) so I wanted to create a TOC (using sections) but it says:
The table of contents is empty because none of the paragraph styles selected in the Document Inspector are used in the document.
When I compare the paragraph styles I do use and the paragraph styles in the Document Inspector, they match. So I'm a bit upset about this because I really need to use this great feature!
Thanks for you answers guys!

I would say: Try and Error. Create a copy of your document and unmark in the copied document in the document inspector all boxes for the TOC. Then mark them again. Maybe you should also delete the paragraph styles and mark them again. If that doesn't work, try to copy the complete text of your document to a new created one. Maybe that works.
Good luck!
P.S.: If that doesn't work look here. Maybe this helps.

How to place a table of contents at the end of a document?

I know how to design a table of contents at the beginning of a Pages document.
I'd like to place a table of contents at the end of a long Pages book.
Is there any simple trick to place a table of contents at the end of a Pages document?
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As long as you'll see students making graphics with pen on paper,
you'll see the missing keystone of the software empire.
dan</pre>

fruhulda wrote:
The Table of Contents (TOC) has to be in front of the Chapters it create a TOC from. There is a work around this, but do it first after you have finished the document because you'll loose the automatic update of the TOC.
Thank you for your attempt to help.
With TextEdit I loose the formatting of the TOC.
I found another workaround, I made a printing of the TOC and saved it
as PDF and included it within an empty page. But this method isn't
really a simple workaround.
The conclusion is that there isn't any easy way to place a TOC
where you want.
<pre>--------
As long as you'll see students making graphics with pen on paper,
you'll see the missing keystone of the software empire.
dan</pre>

After reset Mail hangs w/spinning ball on "Reading table of contents"

This problem is on a 17" monitor Power PC G4, 256mb DDR SDRAM.iMac, half ball bottom, with Mail, with Systems 10.3.9
After Reset, Mail is hanging with the spinning beach ball on "Reading table of contents." Quite a few emails are being retrieved and placed in the Dock before the hang, and Mail responds to mouse commands up to the "hang." Then a Force Quit is the only way to proceed. Other programs run OK, with Mail "hung."
The reason for the Reset is that my daughter reads "fan fiction," and can go through a hundred pages in an hour, and the computer gets so plugged up that it takes FIVE MINUTES to retrieve, then display another Safari window. Empty Cache does not help. So, to get things back to normal, a reset is required. Something went wrong on this reset.
This happened once before, possibly with OS-X 10.2, and I was advised to delete a file somewhere deep in Systems, and Mail apparently made a "new" file and all was fine from then on. My "guess" is that Mail then makes a new "table of contents."
Anybody know what file to delete? Or any other advice? At the moment, I am getting Mail with another IMac, with System 10.2
iMac 17" "half ball bottom" 1 GHZ PowrPc G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hello Jean.
When you use the term "reset", are you referring to a
computer restart?
On this PowerPC with 10.3.9, what is the hard drive
capacity and available free space?
If the problem Inbox mailbox is for a POP type
account, with the Mail.app quit and using the Finder
go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named
folder (named by the user name and incoming mail
server for the account) > INBOX.mbox.
Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
Launch Mail and if successful, a new (and empty)
INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail
within this account named folder when receiving the
next message with this account.
This should allow the Mail.app to function properly
again while working on the old INBOX.mbox move to the
Desktop to recover the existing messages.
Control-click on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the
Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select
Show Package Contents.
List the package content file names and size of
each here.
I have had the same problem as Jean - did what you advised and now find mail runs find but need to rescue the old mail.
This is the package content of my old inbox:
content index 36 kb
content_index-computername.local-372 10.9 MB
info.plist 4 kb
mbox 939.1 MB
tableofcontents 1.5 MB
hope you can help me...
x
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Creating a table of contents in a PDF - which program to use?

I have created many pdf-files from multiple sources and would like to include a table of contents to each of them. Not the side-bar bookmarked table of contents but a traditional one which prints with the document (as you can easily create in Word or Pages).
As I have to create a table of contents for 60 different pdf-files, it would take ages to do this by hand (what I would do is create a empty word document with the chapters in the right pages and create a table of contents. I can then make a PDF of the table of contents and insert that page into my PDF-file, but it's a lot of work!)
I have Adobe Acrobat X, but it doesn't seem to be possible with it. Searching the internet, I found some Windows programs which might do the trick, but I only have Apple computers. Does anyone know a program which can do this on an Apple?
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Navigating Table of Contents with Module Reviews and Knowledge Checks

I have been using 5.5 for at least 3 months without issue.
My current course is being published SCORM 1.2 to SumTotal LMS, but that is not relevant at this time.
I have 3 modules in the course (3 module reviews and sets of knowledge check questions).
Each set of knowledge check questions are 3 random questions from respective quiz pools.
The final quiz is the only one with weighted values that report to the LMS.
Problem...
When you click past the Module Review (use Module Review 2) and take the knowledge check questions, and then click that Module Review 2 page via the Table of Contents, the Next and Back buttons do not work and everything freezes.
This even happens when in preview mode in Captivate, and I don't even have to post to LMS.
Help, please!

I have a specific style set up (similary to body text) to dress the table of contents at 11pt. Overset text was my thought too! but its actually just an empty paragraph with a title. I've attached an image to help explain.

Table of contents in Pages

I am writing my master thesis right now and the structure is as follows: two cover pages, acknowledgments, abstracts and then i would like to put a table of contents. previous pages are done with the appropriate style (heading 1) but when i insert the TOC, it's empty. Is there a way it can include the previous headings? I hope this is clear enough! Thank you very much!
Rumen

and 8 lines under you will read:
*Creating and Updating a Table of Contents*
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
To update the TOC after editing a document, click any entry in the table of contents, or click Update Now in the TOC pane of the Document inspector. If you don’t update the table of contents after changing a document, it updates automatically when you close the document.
You are hitting the result of the use of common resources for the Help and for the User Guide.
In the Help, the part which you reproduced is really page different of the referenced one.
It seems that the draft of the User Guide was made from the Help with a piece of code replacing the links between Help 'pages' by references to paper pages.
Sometimes the result is effectively funny but not sufficient for "a good laugh" .
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 2 juillet 2009 17:32:31)

How to copy and paste a multi-page table of contents?

Hi everyone.
I have a large document with a Table Of Contents extending over two pages. I'd like to copy the entire TOC then paste it into a new Pages document.
I have been able to copy the TOC however when I try to paste it into a new blank Word Processing pages document the following Error message appears: "The table of contents is empty because none of the paragraph styles selected in the Document Inspector are used in the document."
I can paste it into a blank Page Layout pages document however it pastes it into a text box with only one page of the TOC in it. Even if the new Page Layout document has two pages and I extend the text box over the two pages only one page of the TOC is copied into the new Page Layout document. At the moment the only work-around I can do is to take a screen shot of each individual page of the TOC and paste them individually into a new pages document. I have tried exporting the entire original document to a plain text file however all the formating is lost (obviously). I have also tried exporting the entire original document to a Word document (.doc) however it won't let me copy the multi-page TOC and paste it into a new Word document.
Is there any way to successfully copy a multi-page table of contents to a new Pages document?

VQM wrote:
Thanks Peter.
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
The TOC is a hyperlinked text derived from the contents of the file it was generated in.
You can try exporting the pages the TOC is on as rtf, text or pdf and transferring that, but I would question the value of a TOC for one document being in an entirely different document, which doesn't have what the TOC is pointing to.
Have you tried copying the T.O.C. Section from the document Thumbnails and pasting into the document Thumbnails of the 2nd document?
Peter
How does one export individual pages from a Pages document?
I've also tried to copy the TOC section from the document thumbnail however I can't figure out how to select multiple pages in the document thumbnails. It only allows me to select one at a time. Furthermore, when I do select a single page from the thumbnail section and attempt to drag and drop it into the the thumbnail section of the second document it picks up the whole document and wont allow me to move it from the thumbnail section of the original document.
Shift click to select multiple pages, and I did say Copy and Paste, not drag and drop.
Peter

Need to delete or change default table of contents

The default table of contents created when I imported a
FrameMaker book is empty. I reimported the book (using a different
option) and created a new TOC. I want to use this one in my
project. Some questions:
1. Can I change the default TOC to be the new (non-empty)
one? If so, how? (Can you refer me to a topic in the RoboHelp
Documentation?)
2. Can I delete the default TOC? If so, how? (Can you refer
me to a topic in the RoboHelp Documentation?)
3. If the answers to the above questions is "no," can I just
ignore the default (empty) one & use the new (nonempty) one
when I generate? If so, how? (Can you refer me to a topic in the
RoboHelp Documentation?)

However, I thought that the blank TOC was created before I
learned the "correct" way to import FrameMaker documents: by
reference. So I can't say what would have happened if I had
imported the book by reference initially. Nonetheless, I have the
same result - a blank default TOC that I can't remove (as Peter
points out).

Reading Table of Contents

When I open my mail program, a dozen or more fairly recent emails also pop open and clog my desk top. Then, I get a spinning pinwheel and the message "Reading Table of Contents" at the top of my mail program. I have to force quit and sometimes this will go away if I restart, but not always. It's exceedingly annoying. Can anyone please give me advice on why these emails are opening and how to stop them from doing so, as well as how to get out of "reading table of contents" mode?
Thanks,
L
g4 powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You're welcome.
First of all, if launching Mail while holding the Shift key down didn't prevent Mail from opening all those messages, and if that's still a problem, you can fix it re-creating the preferences file as follows:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate the com.apple.mail.plist file and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
You'll have to set up your non-Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don't. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You'll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it's enabled.
Now, as to other things you should be aware of regarding the Table Of Contents problem, take a look at the following article in case it applies to you:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

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