Building a TOCXPress's Lists feature forces you to define a List, then build the table of contents from the Lists palette. InDesign makes a table of contents in one step, using the Table of Contents feature (which you can select from the Layout menu; see Figures 89-1 and 89-2). In the Table of Contents dialog box you can enter a title (like "Contents") if you wish for one to be automatically added to the beginning of the TOC, and you can apply a paragraph style to the title text using the Style pop-up menu. Figure 89-1. The Table of Contents dialog box lets you identify which paragraph styles InDesign should include in your TOC and how they are formatted.![]() Figure 89-2. A table of contents built using the settings shown in Figure 89-1.![]() Next, you must identify which of your document's paragraph styles InDesign should use to build the table of contents. To do this, double-click the styles you want to include from the Other Styles section of the Table of Contents dialog box (or click once and press the Add button). This adds the styles to the Include Paragraph Styles list. You can tell InDesign what paragraph styles to apply to the text within the table of contents you are building by selecting each style from the Include Paragraph Styles list and then selecting another paragraph style from the Entry Style pop-up menu to format it.If you are updating an existing table of contents, select the Replace Existing Table of Contents option, and if you are building a table of contents from several Book files, select the Include Book Document option. You can also change the way InDesign creates the table of contentssuch as making it alphabetical rather than in chronological orderby clicking the More Options button.When you're ready, click OK. InDesign builds the table of contents and changes the cursor to the Place icon. You can fill an already-made text frame, or just click to have InDesign create a frame and fill it with the table of contents. |