Toc in portrait templates

Hi, I've created a book using a portrait template and now I need to have my toc displayed as a list (just as in the portrait orientation of any landscape template). Is that possible? I have almost 600 chapters and the navigation buttons are very inconvenient in my case. I can't find any information about that, can anybody help me?
Thank you

Hello shal1y,
Thanks for the question. The following article may provide relevant information to your question:
iBooks Author: Customize the table of contents
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2752
Thanks,
Matt M.

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I'm trying to author an ebook in the iBooks Author and using the portrait only template (Classic Text). The TOC is still showing a page per TOC item. Why can't it just show the default list type view of the TOC?
I did not want this, why do I need 15 pages just to show the chapters and their title, why cannot they be just like a TOC in a regular book?
Am I doing something wrong here... please help.
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Hello shal1y,
Thanks for the question. The following article may provide relevant information to your question:
iBooks Author: Customize the table of contents
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2752
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I see the TOC is based on the chapter titles of the book, I also see that you can change the styles and I need to know the following.
Is there a way to add any other text to the titles for instance:
chapter 1 - is the title ( which displays in the TOC)
either an image ( for each chapter) as I see if I do that the image appears in all.
OR
another text box in each chapter with different text?
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If I understand your question, looking at the image you can see I changed section to have a title of Hope & Crosby and this will show in the TOC.
You can re-name the Book Title, Chapters and Sections in the book tree simply by mousing over to select and re-type your names.
What you change there is reflected in the TOC
The default text boxes for these are what appers in the TOC.
As it apears in TOC
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Happy New Year :) The files were all created in FM8 - I have the TCS, so that is what I'm using. No imported text, etc. Everything originated in FM. There was nothing installed on this computer before we installed TCS (in terms of Adobe products). I did the test in a brand new FM file with a portrait template using Times Font, changed only the body font to Arial, and generated the TOC - the TOC looked fine (no bullet points anywhere).
The bullets in the document looked very similar to the ones showing up in my problematic TOCs- same size, same orientation.
So I tried again, same idea with a brand new document, changed the paragraph tags to arial for all my headings and such (as I have in the document that is causing me problems), updated, created TOC- same random bullets appearing in front of a few of the heading2 and heading3's.
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I'm finding iBooks Author in general to be horribly confusing in general in terms of naming files, books and templates. So perhaps I'm overlooking something basic.
But, the issue I am having is that when I export my iBooks file and add it to my iTunes book library, it shows up taking the name of my table of contents in portrait mode iBooks Author. Specifically, when I look at my TOC in portrait mode, I have a text box at the top where I have typed the word Contents, which is what I want my TOC labeled. But it seems like if I don't name my TOC my full book title (which I don't want to do, as it's very long), I am forced to have my book then also titled "Contents" when it's in my iBooks library.
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Try this.
In the sidebar above where it says Intro Media Double-click on the Book Title and enter the complete long title there. I've tested this to 100 characters.
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Actually, I was re-reading the section on widgets in the O-Reilley book (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/publishing-ibooks-author/id502051500?mt=11)
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Not sure to be honest - it is the standard white theme with black bars under each chapter. The chapter or section templates are varied but primarily the portrait template I have removed the two column formatting and just have a blank setion in the middle of the page. When I try to insert keynote widget it just beeps and does nothing. I have inserted in in the landscape version and it plays fine in proof. So for now I just placed a note in the portrati version instructing the user to switch to landscape - seems kind of a "jack" work arouund though.

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Set Word to show bookmarks and look at the Introduction heading.
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When you open iBooks Author, you should have the template chooser appear.
The "larger" template is designed for use in Landscape. What you want is a "Portrait" sized template.
When the template chooser opens, you will see the different template available in both Landscape and Portrait.
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Many thanks in advance

You are working a portrait template therefore the column options are not available.
Yes, contact will flow, but its not endless, your text will flow only into the pages it needs.
You can use a landscape template if it suits your project - and its possible to set it up to use portrait and landscape.
I am told that most "words only" books are written in MS Word or similar applications and pasted into inDesign, iBooks etc,. and then re-formatted to suit and the page producing flowing text works really well!

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The Table Of Contents contains a reference to every other part of the document whose style name includes 'TOC'. The template is set up so that these styles are automatically applied to the headings in your text.
You need to change the style of every heading so that the style name is not one of the TOC ones. If you select one of the headings in your text, then open the Styles drawer, you will see which style name it is. If you then click and hold on the disclosure arrow for this style name, you have some options.
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I just bought Keynote for iOS, to present some of my app mockups, but was sadly surprised to learn that I can't rotate a presentation from landscape to portrait mode.
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I am writing a fiction book, no graphics. What template works best with this? Is ibooks author the best option?

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Because, except for being able to change paragraph styles, the TOC isn't editable. If you want to change the text, go into your document and change the text the TOC looks at in order to build its report. Then update the TOC.

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