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Use a table of contents - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Interactive Documents
Use a table of contents
- [Instructor] Tables of contents are one of the most useful long document features in InDesign. You can build and update tables of contents from any Style Text in your document, and you can create links and bookmarks that readers can use to navigate in ePub, PDF, and Publish Online. So let's see how the table of contents feature can add more interactivity to your documents. The first step to building a table of contents is to consistently style all the text in your document that you want to appear in the table of contents. InDesign's table of contents function works by looking for text with certain styles applied to it. So if text isn't styled, it can't be found by the table of contents feature. In our exercise file, the text is properly formatted with styles, like this heading, "The Art of the Boil," and it's formatted here with Article Title 1. Let's scroll up to page two, where the table of contents will be, and the second step in building a table of contents is to go to the…
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