The trick is to make sure the text frame on the pasteboard touches the page.
You can style it however you want in the table of contents setup. So if you need to add other words to a heading you want in the TOC, then put there what you need it to say. You can create a text frame on the pasteboard that has the text that you want for the table of contents. Flexibility Different text for table of contentsīut maybe you’re not using the table of contents feature because the text you need to use for the entries doesn’t quite match how those headings appear in the document.įor example, in a complex annual report I work on, the headings for the main sections need to have additional text before them in the table of contents that doesn’t appear on the pages themselves. You might as well have taken the time to build the table of contents right the first time, which isn’t a lot of time at all. That can be really time consuming, especially with large documents. Who has time for that?! But worse is having to write down page numbers and go back and forth and type them in the table of contents. Having to make a change in two places-on the page where a heading appears and in the table of contents-is tedious. I know creating a table of contents takes a few minutes, but you’ll save time in the entire layout process.
Then you simply pick out and add those styles, set up the paragraph and character styles you want them to use and choose whether or not you want to have the number appear before or after the entry. You’ve got to use paragraph styles, which I know many designers don’t do. Time Savings With InDesign’s Table of Contents FeatureĪ lot of designers think it takes too long to create a table of contents. If the text of a heading changes, you will have to remember to go back and fix it in the table of contents too.īut when you create a table of contents using the built-in feature, you simply select which paragraph styles to include, and if a heading or a page number changes, you can select the option to update the table of contents. If you ever have to remove or add pages in the layout process or a page moves because maybe you had to add a blank page, so a section would start on a righthand page, for instance, you’ll have to remember to go back to the table of contents and make the change yourself. It relies on you copying and pasting all the headings that should be included.
One, manually creating a table of contents leaves room for error. I know you might think it’s too time consuming or maybe you’re not sure how to get it to work properly, or you just think tables of contents are a pain in the rear.īut there are several problems with creating the table of contents manually, especially if you’re working on a large publication. I used to do this myself a long time ago. Most of the time when I review graphic designers’ InDesign files, I see that they’ve built the table of contents by hand.
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