Table of contents: wrong sequence of items

In my document (no Book feature used), each section begins with two headings: first Paragraph Style 1, then Paragraph Style 2. In the TOC, I need the arrangement the other way round: Paragraph Style 2 above, followed by Paragraph Style 1 below.
However, in the generated TOC the headings appear in the same order as in each section. Has anybody an idea what is going wrong?

In a case like this you might need to "trick" ID into doing what you want. You can do that by adding some sort of non-printing frame (put it on a non-printing layer, set the attributes to non-printing, or make the text invisible by setting the fill to [None], the last being the worst choice) with one of the titles. If it's on the same layer, it can be anchored in the text flow so it moves with the rest of the text during editing. Add the title you want to list out of order to that frame using a unique style, not the one used in the running text, and indclude that style inthe TOC instead of the one from the running text. This will allow you to position the frames correctly relative to each other to get your titles into the correct order, but it is a pain.
When I do non-printing stuff like this I like to make it really obvious in layout view, so I usually use red text. It can be easy to forget that there is something invisible if you don't see it, and the next guy doing the editing will also appreciate it if you don't hide stuff.

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Table of Contents Wrong Order

Hi there,
Can anyone help me out with this issue? I have a table of contents set up here, but the subtitles are showing above the Chapter titles instead of below.
I given them the appropriate levels-Units(level1), Chapters(level2), Subtitles (level3). So I'm not sure why they are appearing in the wrong order. For example, 4.1 should be right under Chapter 4 before 4.2.
Please advise,
Thank you!

Thanks Peter!
Does this mean that I need to move the Chapter titles to the right so they are at least aligned or more to the left than the subtitles? Is there another way to do this?
I believe below photo shows the layout concern you mentioned.

Find/Change Item Numbers and create Table of Contents

Hello! I need help to find all my item numbers and apply a paragraph style to it so I can use them to create a Table of Contents page.
Sample item numbers
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You actually have two problems here. The first is to assign the paragraph style. For that you can use GREP.
Find #\d+ and leave the change field blank, but in the change formatting pick the paragraph style. Stricly speaking you only need to find #\d or even just # because a paragraph style applies to an entire paragraph, so assigning it to any character inthe paragraph will assign it to the entire paragraph.
Which is your second problem. The TOC is based on paragraph styles and will include all of the text in each paragraph (up to the character limit for a TOC entry, which I think is 256 characters). You can't make a TOC and only use some of the paragraph. For that you need to use an index, or you need to make hidden or non-pinting frames with only the exact text you want in the TOC and assign a unique style to those.
It's also possible someone has written (or could write) a script that can find text strings that match a pattern such as your numers, assign a character style to them (you could actually do that part in the paragraph style by adding a nested GREP style), then making a list of the text strings along with the page number on which they appear -- almost the same as an index except it would be based on character style, not an index marker.

Table of contents not showing items before it

I have a document which has to follow a strict format. It must have pages in the following order:
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Title page
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
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I've set up a table of contents and it's working fine, except it isn't showing items that appear before it. All I want is for the Acknowledgements page (which is immediately before the TOC) to show up in the TOC, but I can't get it to work.
Is this just a limitation of Pages? Does the TOC only ever show items that appear after it?

pd,
Unfortunately for you, according to the Pages '09 User Guide, Chapter 3 Using Table Of Contents says the following:
Creating and Updating a Table of Contents
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Sorry.

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I am building a table of contents in InDesign CS3. I've got paragraph style applied to my section heading and well as section subheadings. However, my sections headings are located on Master Pages (as they are repeating on several pages), and my section subheadings are located directly on the pages themselves (as they do not repeat).
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I found this article about using Power Headers to override master frames that addresses the table of contents issue: http://in-tools.com/article/power-headers/power-headers-overrides-master-frames/
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InDesign CS4: No Table of Contents Item in Layout menu.

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I have a purchased educational version of InDesign CS4
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It sounds like you might not be working in a Workspace that display Full Menus.
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Table of Contents displays in wrong order

I created and generated a Table of Contents, and am having a weird issue.   It's a 19-page document, and Table of Contents is set to display Headings 1 and 2. Everything went fine, except that on one page the Heading 1 on top of the page displays in the Table of Contents below the Heading 1 level below it - i.e., they're in the wrong order!
So, on the page its -
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Any ideas about why it might be doing this?

It can't be! If "9. Text" and "10. Text" use the same list for auto-numbering and "10" is below "9" on the same page, Indesign can't generate such, unless you don't copy the numbering to the TOC and instead add numbering via TOC style. Check your TOC style settings.

Bug or am I doing it wrong? (Table of Contents)

One table of contents works fine for my thesis, but then I try to add a list of figures. I insert the table of contents, the instant that I change anything about it in the Inspector, the first table of contents gets changed too. I can't figure out how to disjoin them, they are obviously two different objects, but the Inspector seems not to be able to tell them apart.

Pages appears to allow a single, unified TOC. I think Apple Feedback would be a good place to go to ask to include a feature that allows separate list for tables, figures, charts, etc.
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Word to PDF does not keep hyperlinks in Table of Contents ?

I have used my free trial of Adobe CreatePDF before purchasing the annual subscription.
I was surprised to see that the PDF document did not keep the clickable hyperlinks that Word uses in a Table of Contents. As this is the exact same behaviour as the "Save as PDF ..." option that I have natively available on my computer I don't see the point of paying a subscription to the service. Or am I doing something wrong?
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Office for Mac 2011
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Good day fgrexsg,
You are correct in that the workflow you described will not produce links in the resulting PDF files. The steps that Lori outlined work great if you're working on Office for Windows in terms of getting the links to work when converting using the CreatePDF service.
In order to make this work on the Mac, you'll have to take a few extra steps within Office first.
You're going to have to repeat this step for each item in your TOC. While this will be time-consuming for a 150-page document, it will work.
Within your TOC, highlight the entire entry listing (e.g. Topic 1.........3)
Once the entire line is highlighted, choose Insert > Hyperlink
Click 'Document' to select a location within the current document.
Under the 'Anchor' option, either type in the Heading/Sub-heading (must be exact) of the page you want the hyperlink to attach to or click 'Locate' and find the proper Heading/Sub-heading within the structure.
As I said, this will probably be time-consuming on such a large document, but it will work.
Unfortunately Office for Mac just simply isn't as full-featured as its Windows counterpart.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
David
Acrobat Community Manager
Adobe Systems

I can't get the page numbers in my table of contents to update when I update the book.

I'm using Framemaker 11 and I have two TOCs in my book: one in English and one in French. Each TOC links to different documents in the same book. The reference page for each TOC is set and correctly displays the heading 1 and 2 I've told it to display, but the numbers do not update when the content in my document files changes to a different page. I've checked the conditional text settings in my document files; they are correct. When I update the book, I choose to update Numbering, All Cross-References, All Text Insets, OLE Links, Generate Table of Contents, Lists, and Indexes. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

I just tested this out and saw the same result as Rick - a book with child books ignores all generated files within the child books. This applies to adding content from them (e.g. their titles) to actually including them in the output. This applies to all versions of FM since v.9!
However, there is a workaround for this. You need to use the hierarchical book structure in the parent book and create Folders for each book that you want to add. Then manually add the generated files (TOC, IX, List of..., etc.) and book to the respective folder. This is what it looks like for two child books in a parent book:
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Table of Contents - Styles not ordering as I want them to

Hi
This has been driving me crazy! Hopefully someone can help. I have set up a table of contents with 3 styles as so:
1. Chapter heading
2. Page title (with page number)
3. Sub or item headings (from each page where relevant)
However the "item" headings Keep appearing on the line above the page heading. I want them to appear after/below so they clearly illustrate the fact that those are items on that particular page. As far as I can tell I have nothing ticked or checked in the TOC paragraph styles that shouldn't be.
Below is a screenshot of the TOC's where I've marked examples of how this is appearing. Only marked a few but oviously this continues through the list.
If anyone could explain where I'm going wrong it would be most appreciated.... My deadline is looming!
Cheers

Hi Peter
Thank you so much for this. That's worked!
I had the page titles on the top right of each page (see attached). I've just run through the deck and moved all page titles to the left and now it works. You're a godsend!
For future reference though, is there any way around this? I often work with architectural drawings inserted into the pages and the books are often bound on the left edge so, to me, it feels more easy on the eye to have the page title top right. I also thought that the heirarchy in the TOC's "Include Paragraph Style" Pane would govern this regardless of it's placement on the page.
Either way, thanks for your help. First time using the forum and I'm very impressed.
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Table of Content Help - Anchored Objects/Listing Order

For the love of god this is extremely frustrating. I have been searching for literally hours trying to find the solution.
I have a large document, linked frames from page 1 through page 44 for example.
On many pages I have figures, and using an incrementing paragraph style, these figure captions are numbered sequentially.
When generating a table of contents, any figures that are in the main linked frames are created in the proper order.
My issue is that on a few pages, I have figures inside anchored objects - basically an anchored text frame with a picture and the figure label text using my paragraph style.
These anchored objects are not being put in the table of contents in the proper order - they are being added to the end of the toc! Indesign should be smart enough to add items on the page in the proper order - be it the main frame or an anchored one!
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Looking at Page 7, it should be obvious that we can add additional deatils to the reports, including cover pages.
Though, after looking at Page 8, I think I may have you slightly in the wrong direction. toc-template appears to simply cover the commands for the table of contents and there is another template to control everything. But is that file visible to edit?
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Once again, though, the other template exposed to us is most likely just driving the content and is not at a high enough definition level for this to work how you want it to.
I would say to use the example in the PDF and try adding that to the table of contents page before it does all of the loops. Perhaps it will work from there, perhaps not.
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Hi,
I am working on a book project and have a page – let's call it the "image page" – with eight images with manually typed descriptions below each. These descriptions sit in Static Captions. The captions also have a sequential numbering (1, 2, 3, 4, ...), which is automatically generated by the caption paragraph style. So far everything works just fine.
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The ToC should display the numbering on the "image page" with its corresponding description, and thus look like this ...
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The captions on the "image page" are correctly numbered.
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Yes, that seems to be the problem. But nonetheless, I still want it to pick up text from left to right first. Is there any way to achieve this (or any other sorting sequence for that part)?
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As far as I know, it should be there always unless the menus themselves have been turned off by someone. Might as well check though.
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Not sure, but I do think you need more information than that. Here is an example program calling the BAPI.
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data: poheadx type bapimepoheaderx.
data: exp_head type bapimepoheader.
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