Nobody anywhere, not even Adobe, have been able to clearly and properly explain how to build and format a table of contents in Indesign. UNTIL THIS VIDEO!! Thank you. Very clearly explained, and at last I have finally been able to create a table of contents in Indesign and formatted to look slick and professional.
This video is absolutely perfect. Super clear, no unnecessary fluff, straight to the point. And after four years still applies. Thank you, Michael Bullo!
I am going to cry!!! I have been searching for this information for a long time and finally found you! I didn't have to go to another site for part 2... Well done, Michael.
Best TOC damn tutorial I watched on this subject and believe me I have seen a few. One of my other jobs beside graphic design, is writing interactive pdf help manuals. Michael delivers this tutorial at the right pace, right tone of voice, and with great explanations of what goes on, the tab thingy in particular. Of course it doesn't hurt that he has Aussie accent either ...LOL👍
This is such a gem. Thank you so much for all the informative tips, especially how to control the dots. *Those who don't see the bookmarks in pdf, make sure to save as PDF (interactive) Not (Print).
I struggled for hours doing this until I landed on your video. Your instructions are crystal clear and was able to follow along to create my own styled toc. Thank you! new subscriber here!
Perfect tutorial! I've tried several others, but couldn't follow them. Your tutorial is very easy to follow and understand. You explain things very well. I was about to give up when I found yours. Thanks so much! Your an excellent teacher.
This is my life saving tut. I have seen many tut for this kind if issue even talk my older brother about it but there no clean idea about making such kind of help. I loved this so so so so much! You got my happy subscribe
Really nice tutorial. Paragraph styles really are not that complicated. For the sake of this tutorial, just spening a minute on that would probably be sufficient to really make this instruction complete.
Thank you! I needed to implement multiple paragraph styles in a ToC and this video showed me how. It also showed me an alternative to using the Tabs function in the Type menu, as well as how to add spaces in the dotted lines between the ToC entries and the page numbers.
@@MichaelBullo Improvements with InDesign projects continue! Three months after first watching, I just watched again to indent "level 2" ToC entries. Thanks again!
Hi Michael, Thanks for the tutorial. It's the clearest and most succinctly presented I have seen after trawling the internet for days! Brilliant. Cheers, James
I agree. This is the best multilevel TOC tutorial. Many other videos are misleading, as their titles are about layered TOC but they only end up showing how to generate simple TOC. Whereas this video in a very to the point manner explains and breaks the process to a logical, most simple to understand steps. Thanks, Michael Bullo.
Hi Michael, this video is the best video on how to create a toc. I am very grateful. I learned so many things. After this video, I realized how wrong I have been working and why most things do not work as they should and despite everything there are still problems that I do not know. Please if you have time answer me the following question as I don't think anyone around has your wonderful practical experience. Here is my question. When I put the numbers on the right side and the dots as you explain, I exported the document to epub and found that the numbers were indeed on the right but the dots disappeared in the new format. Can you make a video about what we have in design format so that we can export it so that all the details appear in the new epub format? And thanks a lot again, for the best tutorial online on how to create a toc in Indesign
@@MichaelBullo It's a 4 page TOc but it was the line of dots between the chapter title and the number that had me completely stumped. The rest was no biggie. I kept trying one thing, then another (wasted about 4 hours on it altogether)... and probably torqued the algorithm so badly I couldn't refresh or regenerate the TOC at all, and had to delete not just the text boxes for it, but the pages as well to regenerate it. And THEN I found your video. LOL. Anyhoo... thank you! :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this tutorial! Hands down the best one of found online. Thank you for including the levels & making this SO simple/easy to follow.
After a total of 24 hours, I finally found 1 person who showed how to make a table of content the proper and professional way...... It's incredible that indesign is so popular and yet there are these kind of missing things... Also I wonder where are the Book templates?? Normally in Photoshop there are 10.000s PSD files, but book templates for indesign, there are almost none..
Thanks Egzon. Hope it helps. You mentioned "book templates" for InDesign. There is a Book feature in InDesign which allows you to bring together and organise multiple InDesign files as if they were chapters in a book. Is this what you are referring to or are you thinking more along the lines of page templates which you would use to layout a book?
@@MichaelBullo I'm actually thinking more about a indesign file where everything is prepared....I think I only have found max 100 total over the whole internet..
Struggled with overriding headers / subheaders with character styles. I think it needs to be noted that if there's already a character style applied to your text, your TOC will NOT override the character styles, despite customizing the paragraph style. Other than that, I found your video to be very details and helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback Vincent. You make a good point regarding Character Styles getting picked up by the TOC. For anyone reading this it's thankfully an easy fix. Make sure that the text frame holding the TOC is selected and then from within the Character Styles panel press the None option.
@@MichaelBullo any chance of a follow up video explaining how to start the contents from a section. I have some pages at the beginning of an instruction manual that I have in a section that I don't wish to be part of the contents
@@sygad1 That's a good question and a great video idea. Unfortunately I'm busy with work at the moment. I recommend posting this question on the Adobe InDesign forum where some experts should be able to guide you through the process. Best of luck.
T H A N K Y O U, M I C H A E L ! - Finally I found a video that explains it all and I can now think about making a TOC without getting stress, haha! You're awesome! :D
You have become my 'goto' guy for InDesign. I have InDesign 2019. The User Interface Scaling feature does not really improve the size of the workspace icons, etc. Is there a script that will allow me to increase the size like it does in the newer version with a sliding bar? Thanks.
Happy to help where I can. I don’t personally know of any such script. I recommend posting this question on the official InDesign forum. Lots of experts hang out there, including those with scripting experience. community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/ct-p/ct-indesign
Great tutorial. I might add that if you want the bookmarks to show in the .pdf so the viewer does not have to look for them, you have the option to set that view as the default view in the .pdf. I did this recently when I combined 5 documents in a .pdf and booked mark each document so it could be located easily and set the initial view to show the bookmarks so it was obvious where to go.
That's a fantastic comment Genevieve. Thanks for sharing. For anyone else reading this you might find this other video useful... How to Display PDF Bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat (Turn on by Default for File) th-cam.com/video/FKtvmgq88O8/w-d-xo.html
Great introduction - thanks! Three things that you didn't mention that are really irritating to work out (or were for me). I'd really appreciate knowing if I have taken the right approach to point 1: 1. If you have numbers stacked on the right (e.g. after a ^y) then it can look a bit odd with a proportional font (21 between 20 and 22 looks indented). I created a character style and set the open type features, figure style to "Tabular Lining". The numbers are now fixed width. 2. Turn on Remove Forced Line Break by default - it's got to be pretty rare that you actually want that unchecked. 3. Once you've saved a TOC to a style then you need to edit the style, not the TOC in order to get a change to persist - I kept trying to save the Style again and changes did not persist until I went into the "Table of Contents Styles" menu item. Seems simple but I was slowly going nuts on this one (particularly as I was trying to get my point 2. to persist)! Thanks, Mike
Hi, thank you for the tutorial it's very good! but I have a problem , I did what you exactly did but I had some issues , I get some level 2 titles under some wrong level 1 titles , I don't what's really happening !
Hi, Any idea how to get 2 paragraph styles on one line. I have headings and subheadings and so far when the TOC generates the table the heading and subheading are on separate lines. Thanks.
Hi Joel. I'd like to help but I think this could be a particularly difficult issue to address in a text only comments section. I recommend posting this question in the Adobe InDesign forum where screen shots can be included. Feel free to post a link to any such post back here in the TH-cam comments. Best of luck. community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/ct-p/ct-indesign
Great video! However I have a question, how do you get the toc contents to match your body contents? at 8:20 after you click ok of the table of content dialog box, you have the text that matches to your book contents, so you were able to edit the contents and the TOC automatically updates it. How do you do that?
Thanks mate. Later in the video I show that updating the document does not automatically update the TOC. However, it is easy to manually do. Having made a change(s) to the document select your TOC and choose the "Update Table of Contents" option from the Layout menu.
How do you keep the panels from going "fly-out" instead of just opening straight down and how do you correct them if they start doing that. Photoshop CC does than annoyingly, thus taking up my screen real estate.
Assuming I understand your issue correctly… Panels are generally grouped together on the right side of the InDesign interface with a small double arrow icon in the upper right corner. When the arrows point left, the group is in a collapsed state and clicking on the panels within the group will have them "fly out". When the arrows point right, the group is in an open state with panels fully displayed and stacked vertically. To switch between the different modes of the group just single click the arrows.
Hello Michael, I want to thank you for the tutorial. Thou one thing is not clear to me, you didn't show where you select actual text of your TOC. I don't understand how to load my table of contents on click after I set everything in the table of contents tab
Can someone help me? When I choose the font and the size on the "Basic Character Formats" of the TOC paragraphs I cannot see it on text (it doesn´t not change the font and the size I choose, it just keeps the same) But when I go to "Basic Character Formats" it´s set up the correct font and size. I don´t know why it´s happening!
If you are changing a Paragraph Style but the text within your document is not changing it could because... 1. Within the Paragraph Style panel you do not have the "Preview" checkbox turned on in the lower left corner. 2. You have not applied the Paragraph Style to the text. Highlight some text or click to have your cursor within some text and then click on a style within the Paragraph Style panel. When creating styles, don't forget about the "Apply Style to Selection" checkbox in the Paragraph Style panel.
I want all my titles and subtitles to be the color black in my table of contents, but some of them are white in my document. When I put my paragraph styles in my table of contents, the colors stay the same. Even though I made different paragraph styles specific for my TOC. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks
Nobody anywhere, not even Adobe, have been able to clearly and properly explain how to build and format a table of contents in Indesign. UNTIL THIS VIDEO!! Thank you. Very clearly explained, and at last I have finally been able to create a table of contents in Indesign and formatted to look slick and professional.
Thank you Greg. That's very kind of you to say. Great to hear you've created an awesome design. Cheers.
This video is absolutely perfect. Super clear, no unnecessary fluff, straight to the point. And after four years still applies. Thank you, Michael Bullo!
Thank you Joann. That's very nice of you to say. Best of luck with all those InDesign docs.
This video is pure perfection. Thank you so so much, Michael. I was having a lot of trouble doing the TOC and now I think I can do it.
Hey that's great to hear mate. Thank you. If you get stuck with anything let me know.
Wonderful teaching! Just lovely. Clearly spoken, clearly demonstrated, clearly explained, clearly presented. Five Stars!!!
Now that's a comment. Thank you very much and have a great day.
I've watched this more times than I care to say. I use InDesign sporatically and have retrain myself. This video is one of my goto's
Thank you Lillian. Good to hear this has helped you out a few times. Have a great day :)
One of the most informative tutorials I've seen so far on InDesign. Keep up the levels!
That's very kind of you to say. Thank you.
This is EXACTLY what I needed! Logically put together, you can tell Michael thought through this tutorial step-by-step. I'm subscribing now.
That's great to hear this helped. Thank you for appreciating the work put into this video and welcome to the channel.
I am going to cry!!! I have been searching for this information for a long time and finally found you! I didn't have to go to another site for part 2... Well done, Michael.
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say. I'm genuinely happy to have helped you out.
I've been reading and researching every place I know to learn how to generate an ID TOC. You are the BEST. Thank you, thank you!
Thank you Lisa. Happy to hear this helped. There certainly are a lot of elements to know when building a TOC. Cheers.
I've watched many InDesign tutorials, and this one is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks Michael, keep doing what you do! 🙏
Thank you very much for the support. I really appreciate it. Best of luck with your InDesign projects.
You are the only person who has been able to explain TOC's to me! THANK YOU!
Thanks mate. Best of luck with all those long documents.
Thank you so much that's the best explanatory video ever
Wow. That's very kind of you to say. Thank you and best of luck with your long documents.
Yours is the BEST video out of 10 I've seen already, I love that you made it logical and perfectly detail for newbies like me.
I genuinely appreciate that feedback. Thank you and best of luck with those long documents.
Mr. Bullo - you Sir are an excellent instructor. Thank you so much. Clear, concise, yet thorough. Very helpful.
Thank you Bruce. I appreciate your detailed comment and I'm happy to hear it helped. Best of luck with all your designs.
By far the best step by step video on creating a TOC in inDesign.
Now that's a compliment. Thank you and best of luck with your InDesign documents.
By far the best and most up-to-date tutorial for the table of contents feature. Thank you Sir!
Much appreciated. Cheers.
Best TOC damn tutorial I watched on this subject and believe me I have seen a few. One of my other jobs beside graphic design, is writing interactive pdf help manuals. Michael delivers this tutorial at the right pace, right tone of voice, and with great explanations of what goes on, the tab thingy in particular. Of course it doesn't hurt that he has Aussie accent either ...LOL👍
Thanks mate. I really appreciate you taking the time to write this endorsement. Good to hear the "tab thingy" now makes sense ;)
This video should be called EVERYTHING you need yo know about TOC! thorough and detailed! Great for my first TOC of ID. Many thanks!
Thank you so much. Best of luck with your designs.
This is the best description of how to create a TOC in InDesign... Awesome work mate. Thanks. Very clearly taught.
Thanks mate. Hope it proves useful. Cheers.
There are few tutorials available on TOC, but this is one of the clearest and simple. Thank you! you got one more subscriber :)
Thank you Alex. I appreciate the feedback and the sub. Cheers.
This is such a gem. Thank you so much for all the informative tips, especially how to control the dots.
*Those who don't see the bookmarks in pdf, make sure to save as PDF (interactive) Not (Print).
Thanks mate. I appreciate the feedback. Good call on how best to export out a PDF. Cheers.
I struggled for hours doing this until I landed on your video. Your instructions are crystal clear and was able to follow along to create my own styled toc. Thank you! new subscriber here!
Thank you Gisele. Very kind of you to say. Best of luck with all those beautifully structured future long documents ;)
This is one of the most comprehensive and easy demonstrations. will save it for an eternity!! Thank you Michael its brilliant
Thank you so much. Very kind of you to say. Hope it proves useful.
probably the best tutorial i've come across for InDesign TOC - well done!!! Thank you so much
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.
Best tutorial on working on TOC with indesign
Thank you Peter
Perfect tutorial! I've tried several others, but couldn't follow them. Your tutorial is very easy to follow and understand. You explain things very well. I was about to give up when I found yours. Thanks so much! Your an excellent teacher.
Hi Jeanette. Thank you for those very kind words. Much appreciated.
I loved the way you simplified the explanation of creating a table of contents ... thanks a zillion for this beneficial tutorial!
Thank you for the comment. That's very kind of you.
This is my life saving tut. I have seen many tut for this kind if issue even talk my older brother about it but there no clean idea about making such kind of help. I loved this so so so so much! You got my happy subscribe
Thank you so much. That's very kind of you to say. Welcome to the channel.
Really nice tutorial. Paragraph styles really are not that complicated. For the sake of this tutorial, just spening a minute on that would probably be sufficient to really make this instruction complete.
Thank you for the kind words and for the feedback. Best of luck with all those InDesign documents.
@@MichaelBullo Thanks!🙂
@@negativghostrdr No worries
Thank you so much! I tried and had several errors, with this great tutorial, I could easily find a solution. Kudos. 😀
Thank you very much. That's great to hear this helped you out.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to figure out how to do this for ages. This is the best explanation I've found!
Thank you Nikki. I appreciate that.
I have been here for reference twice now because of how it is easily and well done
Thanks for coming back and best of luck with all your InDesign documents.
Thank you! I needed to implement multiple paragraph styles in a ToC and this video showed me how. It also showed me an alternative to using the Tabs function in the Type menu, as well as how to add spaces in the dotted lines between the ToC entries and the page numbers.
Thank you Aaron. I hope your InDesign projects are going well.
@@MichaelBullo Improvements with InDesign projects continue!
Three months after first watching, I just watched again to indent "level 2" ToC entries.
Thanks again!
@@Aaron_Lesse Welcome back. Happy to have helped you out again.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the tutorial. It's the clearest and most succinctly presented I have seen after trawling the internet for days! Brilliant.
Cheers,
James
Hi James,
Thank you for the great feedback. It's most appreciated. Happy designing.
Cheers,
Michael
I agree. This is the best multilevel TOC tutorial. Many other videos are misleading, as their titles are about layered TOC but they only end up showing how to generate simple TOC. Whereas this video in a very to the point manner explains and breaks the process to a logical, most simple to understand steps. Thanks, Michael Bullo.
Thank you. Great to hear you found the tutorial helpful.
ME2!!! It's incredible that nobody is telling you how to make these adjustments.. except this guy here
Couldn't for the life of me remember how to do this, helped so much thank you! Loved the way you explained it, clear and concise!
Thank you. I'm happy to hear this helped you out.
I've been having a hard time to figure this out, but you saved my day! Thank you so much, great tutorial!
Thanks Marco.
Thanks Michael, if I watch it 3 times, I might even remember it!
Thanks mate. Might I recommend you watch it 4 times ;)
Thank you, actually I was troubled by the right alignment of the page numbers in the TOC. Thank you for the video.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. Good to hear this helped you out.
brilliantly straightforward. explanation without extra fluff..... now to see if it works the same in CS6
Thank you. I don't think you'll have any problems but let me know if you do.
@@MichaelBullo thank you.
@@cyberlizardcouk Cheers
Michael, thank you so much for this entire series. What a contribution to us! Would love to join as a follower. Lou, Munds Park, AZ
Thank you Lou. That's very kind of you to say. I don't offer any kind of membership at the moment. Have a great day mate.
You described this clearer than Terry White, the official Adobe Products Evangelist. Cheers mate.
Now that's high praise :) Thanks mate.
Hi Michael, this video is the best video on how to create a toc. I am very grateful. I learned so many things. After this video, I realized how wrong I have been working and why most things do not work as they should and despite everything there are still problems that I do not know.
Please if you have time answer me the following question as I don't think anyone around has your wonderful practical experience.
Here is my question.
When I put the numbers on the right side and the dots as you explain, I exported the document to epub and found that the numbers were indeed on the right but the dots disappeared in the new format. Can you make a video about what we have in design format so that we can export it so that all the details appear in the new epub format? And thanks a lot again, for the best tutorial online on how to create a toc in Indesign
Super! Really clear and easy to understand. Well done 👏🏻
Thank you for the feedback and I'm happy to hear this helped you out.
This is fantastic! I will share it with my classmates on school!
Thank you. I hope it helps.
Love this tutorial, today I have test on Indesign and you're a life saver!
Thank you and best of luck with the test.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
This made it all so clear. I've been messing around on my own and couldn't quite get it right!
Thank you for saying that. Creating a TOC can be pretty involved. Best of luck with all those long docs.
@@MichaelBullo It's a 4 page TOc but it was the line of dots between the chapter title and the number that had me completely stumped. The rest was no biggie. I kept trying one thing, then another (wasted about 4 hours on it altogether)... and probably torqued the algorithm so badly I couldn't refresh or regenerate the TOC at all, and had to delete not just the text boxes for it, but the pages as well to regenerate it.
And THEN I found your video.
LOL.
Anyhoo... thank you! :D
@@StephanieLarsen123 Thank you very much. Great to hear you got there in the end. 4 page TOC you say? Damn!!!
This was my 4th ToC video and I wish I had found it first! Thank you this was so perfect!
Thank you Priscilla. That's very kind of you to say. Happy InDesigning :)
Thank you very much for this useful tutorial! Very clear and easy to follow.🙏
Thank you for the feedback and best of luck with all those documents in InDesign.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this tutorial! Hands down the best one of found online. Thank you for including the levels & making this SO simple/easy to follow.
Thank you. Good to hear the different levels were helpful. Best of luck with all your designs.
Excellent video that goes in depth about all the right things in a friendly, concise manner. Thank you!
Thank you very much Natalia
the most detailed TOC tutorial, thanks, Michael.
Thanks for that. Hope it helps.
After a total of 24 hours, I finally found 1 person who showed how to make a table of content the proper and professional way...... It's incredible that indesign is so popular and yet there are these kind of missing things... Also I wonder where are the Book templates?? Normally in Photoshop there are 10.000s PSD files, but book templates for indesign, there are almost none..
Thanks Egzon. Hope it helps.
You mentioned "book templates" for InDesign. There is a Book feature in InDesign which allows you to bring together and organise multiple InDesign files as if they were chapters in a book. Is this what you are referring to or are you thinking more along the lines of page templates which you would use to layout a book?
@@MichaelBullo I'm actually thinking more about a indesign file where everything is prepared....I think I only have found max 100 total over the whole internet..
@@EgzonNikqiFB I hear ya. There's definitely far more Photoshop templates out there than for InDesign.
Aaa
No worries, I created brand new styles from scratch and it worked..
Idk what i would've without you
Thank you. That's very nice of you to say.
Struggled with overriding headers / subheaders with character styles. I think it needs to be noted that if there's already a character style applied to your text, your TOC will NOT override the character styles, despite customizing the paragraph style. Other than that, I found your video to be very details and helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback Vincent. You make a good point regarding Character Styles getting picked up by the TOC. For anyone reading this it's thankfully an easy fix. Make sure that the text frame holding the TOC is selected and then from within the Character Styles panel press the None option.
@@MichaelBullo Thank you!! I was struggling with the for WAY too long and was about to give up. Luckily went to read the comments
A perfect way to explain TOC settings.
Thank you. Best of luck with all those long documents :)
Very helpful and nicely put together. Rear a few articles and it was going straight over me, everything perfect after watching this.
Hey thank you. Great to hear this helped you out. Happy designing :)
You are AWESOME! thanks for the thorough walk-through, all worked
Fantastic and thank you. Congrats on the new TOC.
Very helpful as I'm formatting a TOC for my thesis!
Thank you. Best of luck with the thesis.
Very helpful - I could pause underway and jump to my own and try it out.
Thanks mate. A link to the demo files can be found in the description if it helps.
this is wonderful Micheal... a big brave heart! so many kind regards
Thank you Mohsin. That's very kind of you to say.
This is an outstanding tutorial...Thank you so much for all the help!
That's very kind of you to say Valerie. Thank you and best of luck with all those InDesign docs.
That’s exactly what I want to know.
Thank you very much.
Thanks Hosun. Much appreciated.
exceptionally clear and informative, thank you, helped enormously
Thanks mate. I appreciate that and I'm happy to hear this helped.
@@MichaelBullo any chance of a follow up video explaining how to start the contents from a section. I have some pages at the beginning of an instruction manual that I have in a section that I don't wish to be part of the contents
@@sygad1 That's a good question and a great video idea. Unfortunately I'm busy with work at the moment. I recommend posting this question on the Adobe InDesign forum where some experts should be able to guide you through the process. Best of luck.
Excellent presentation. Your approach make it very logical and understandable.
I appreciate the feedback and kind words Lillian. Thank you.
Outstanding. Clear & concise!
Thank you Mark. I wish you well with your long documents.
Saved me tones of time. Thank you very much!!
Hey that's great to hear. Thanks for letting me know.
Really good tutorial. Clear and well explained... you are a natural teacher. Great stuff :-)
Thank you. I really appreciate that.
An excellent, clear tutorial!
Thank you mate. Happy to have helped.
Finally a practical guide !! Great tutorial Thank you 😊
Thank you. I appreciate that and I hope it helps.
Really helpful. thank you, dear Mr.Michael
Thank you Adham. Happy to hear this helped you out.
Wow.....Thanks for the video Michael..... love it
Thank you Sunil. Have fun creating all those TOCs :)
Absolutely a GREAT tutorial. Thanks much for this.
Thanks mate. Hope it helps you with those long documents.
T H A N K Y O U, M I C H A E L ! - Finally I found a video that explains it all and I can now think about making a TOC without getting stress, haha! You're awesome! :D
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say. A stress free InDesign TOC does sound pretty awesome ;)
how do you make this @1:58 ????
What specifically?
You have become my 'goto' guy for InDesign. I have InDesign 2019. The User Interface Scaling feature does not really improve the size of the workspace icons, etc. Is there a script that will allow me to increase the size like it does in the newer version with a sliding bar? Thanks.
Happy to help where I can. I don’t personally know of any such script. I recommend posting this question on the official InDesign forum. Lots of experts hang out there, including those with scripting experience.
community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/ct-p/ct-indesign
absolutly fantastic... very well explained
Thank you very much. Best of luck with all your documents.
Great tutorial. I might add that if you want the bookmarks to show in the .pdf so the viewer does not have to look for them, you have the option to set that view as the default view in the .pdf. I did this recently when I combined 5 documents in a .pdf and booked mark each document so it could be located easily and set the initial view to show the bookmarks so it was obvious where to go.
That's a fantastic comment Genevieve. Thanks for sharing. For anyone else reading this you might find this other video useful...
How to Display PDF Bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat (Turn on by Default for File)
th-cam.com/video/FKtvmgq88O8/w-d-xo.html
You legend... Easy to follow and clear
Thanks mate. Appreciate it.
Thank you. But my heading have enter it breaks the heading into 2 line in TOC. How to solve this?
In the Table of Contents dialog box is the option "Remove Forced Line Break". Does that do what you need?
Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Thank you Annie. Great to hear.
Just found this and it's still so useful!
Thank you Nicola. Best of luck with those InDesign docs.
Worked like a charm! Thank you so much!!
Great to hear. Thank you.
Super Useful Video and pretty easy to follow!
Thank you. Hope you're building some cool stuff in InDesign :)
Great introduction - thanks! Three things that you didn't mention that are really irritating to work out (or were for me). I'd really appreciate knowing if I have taken the right approach to point 1:
1. If you have numbers stacked on the right (e.g. after a ^y) then it can look a bit odd with a proportional font (21 between 20 and 22 looks indented). I created a character style and set the open type features, figure style to "Tabular Lining". The numbers are now fixed width.
2. Turn on Remove Forced Line Break by default - it's got to be pretty rare that you actually want that unchecked.
3. Once you've saved a TOC to a style then you need to edit the style, not the TOC in order to get a change to persist - I kept trying to save the Style again and changes did not persist until I went into the "Table of Contents Styles" menu item. Seems simple but I was slowly going nuts on this one (particularly as I was trying to get my point 2. to persist)!
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike. Thanks for posting all the additional notes. You make some great points. Cheers.
Excellent Tutorial i must confess.. Thank you so much
I'm happy to hear that. Thank you.
Love your vid mate from another Aussie.
Thanks mate. I appreciate that. Hope you're building some cool stuff in InDesign.
Hi, thank you for the tutorial it's very good! but I have a problem , I did what you exactly did but I had some issues , I get some level 2 titles under some wrong level 1 titles , I don't what's really happening !
Thank you. Could you please explain the problem in more detail.
this is what i was looking for thank you so much!
Thank you. Best of luck with those long documents.
Nicely done :) Thank you. Like your voice as well: plenty of dynamic range.
Thank you Marcel. Yeah not putting the listener to sleep is half the challenge ;)
How do I change the color of the Dots and Page Numbers. I'm creating a doc with a black border and need white.
Look for the Character Color section in both the Paragraph Style and Character Style dialog boxes.
Hi, Any idea how to get 2 paragraph styles on one line. I have headings and subheadings and so far when the TOC generates the table the heading and subheading are on separate lines. Thanks.
Hi Joel. I'd like to help but I think this could be a particularly difficult issue to address in a text only comments section. I recommend posting this question in the Adobe InDesign forum where screen shots can be included. Feel free to post a link to any such post back here in the TH-cam comments. Best of luck.
community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/ct-p/ct-indesign
Great video! However I have a question, how do you get the toc contents to match your body contents? at 8:20 after you click ok of the table of content dialog box, you have the text that matches to your book contents, so you were able to edit the contents and the TOC automatically updates it. How do you do that?
Thanks mate. Later in the video I show that updating the document does not automatically update the TOC. However, it is easy to manually do. Having made a change(s) to the document select your TOC and choose the "Update Table of Contents" option from the Layout menu.
How do you keep the panels from going "fly-out" instead of just opening straight down and how do you correct them if they start doing that. Photoshop CC does than annoyingly, thus taking up my screen real estate.
Assuming I understand your issue correctly… Panels are generally grouped together on the right side of the InDesign interface with a small double arrow icon in the upper right corner. When the arrows point left, the group is in a collapsed state and clicking on the panels within the group will have them "fly out". When the arrows point right, the group is in an open state with panels fully displayed and stacked vertically. To switch between the different modes of the group just single click the arrows.
Amazing ! Learnt alot in a single video 😍 . Subscribed ! Thank you
Hi Tanvi. I'm happy to hear that. Thanks for the sub. Happy designing :)
Better than my teacher.
Thanks mate 👍
Hello Michael, I want to thank you for the tutorial.
Thou one thing is not clear to me, you didn't show where you select actual text of your TOC.
I don't understand how to load my table of contents on click after I set everything in the table of contents tab
Thank you. I'd like to help but I don't fully understand your question. Could you perhaps mention the time of the video that is not clear.
Excellent. Exactly what I needed and more. Thank you so much!
Thank you Maria. Best of luck with all your InDesign documents :)
when I click on the box and then layout - update table of contents, it's still gray. I still can't select it.
Are you sure you have a Table of Contents within the box that you are selecting?
Can someone help me? When I choose the font and the size on the "Basic Character Formats" of the TOC paragraphs I cannot see it on text (it doesn´t not change the font and the size I choose, it just keeps the same) But when I go to "Basic Character Formats" it´s set up the correct font and size. I don´t know why it´s happening!
If you are changing a Paragraph Style but the text within your document is not changing it could because...
1. Within the Paragraph Style panel you do not have the "Preview" checkbox turned on in the lower left corner.
2. You have not applied the Paragraph Style to the text. Highlight some text or click to have your cursor within some text and then click on a style within the Paragraph Style panel.
When creating styles, don't forget about the "Apply Style to Selection" checkbox in the Paragraph Style panel.
I want all my titles and subtitles to be the color black in my table of contents, but some of them are white in my document. When I put my paragraph styles in my table of contents, the colors stay the same. Even though I made different paragraph styles specific for my TOC. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks
Have you specifically set the color within the paragraph styles that you created for the TOC?