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Generate a table of contents with styles

Generate a table of contents with styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Generate a table of contents with styles

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- [Narrator] Styles are used in conjunction with InDesign's table of contents feature, and in order to automatically generate a table of contents you have to use styles consistently in the document. The table of contents finds all instances of specified paragraph styles, generates a table of contents, and applies styles to the generated text. Let's just take a quick spin through this document. You can see that I have chapter numbers, chapter titles, and I also have section titles. So those are the things that I want to pick up in my table of contents, and I'm going to put my table of contents on page five, which is currently blank. So I'm going to come to the layout menu and choose table of contents. I'll return to the table of contents style and capture these settings as a table of contents style when I have everything the way I want it. Title I'm going to leave at contents. I'll choose a paragraph style to apply to that. Now I'm considering this as same level of hierarchy as a…

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