Automate Your (Pretty) Table of Contents • InDesign
Becky’s Graphic Design®, LLC Becky’s Graphic Design®, LLC
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 Published On Dec 2, 2022

Making and REMAKING a table of contents is exhausting. Open up that PDF and InDesign side-by-side and retype all those page numbers because your TOC is too pretty to regenerate now. Well, let's automate that! Every time your client adds a new page, just "Update Table of Contents!" Let InDesign work for you!

0:00 - Intro
0:45 - The Issue
1:05 - Must Have Styled Book!
2:40 - Making a New TOC
3:12 - Start Fresh and Name Your TOC
4:00 - Add in Content via Paragraph Styles
4:24 - Hierarchy
5:05 - Styling the Text with Character Style
6:25 - Right Indent Tab
7:00 - Other Settings to Select
7:45 - SAVE THE TOC STYLE
8:10 - Placing the TOC
8:35 - Editing the TOC
9:30 - How I Made the Chapter 1/2/3 Styles
11:00 - Add a Custom Word like "Chapter"
12:00 - Editing the Tab Stops
12:45 - Final Tab Settings
13:01 - Manually Remove Numbered List from "Introduction"
13:45 - Removing Additional Unwanted Character Styles
14:40 - Using Find/Change on Only Your Selection
15:57 - How to Add Em/En Dash to Numbering
17:31 - Update TOC

Licensed Intro/Outro Music:
Lake Michigan by Staffan Carlén.

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