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Cory Benson
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February 22, 2019
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Auto updating Table of Contents

In Indesign, I'm creating a furniture catalog that has a table of contents with every page listed. Every year, this catalog gets updated and some of the pages shuffle.  Is there a way to drop in a special character for page number on the table of contents that is linked to its own page? You can add a page number, but from what I can see, it has to be the current page, the next page, the previous page or a section marker. If I could link the marker to a specific page, I wouldn't have to update the page multiple times before sending to print.

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Meilleure réponse par hammer0909

Hmmmm....  how do you set that up? Is there a specific table of contents feature I don’t know about?


Yes there is. Choose Layout > Table of Contents to open the Table of Contents dialog box. You MUST use styles to format text throughout your document in order for this to work. Choose the style that you’ve used on each page (usually a header style) and then define how you’d like to format the entries that appear in the Table of Contents (again using a style).

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Cory Benson
Participant
February 22, 2019

Wow! Thanks for the info! I’ve been doing it manua for about 20 years.

Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 22, 2019

That's what I was afraid you were saying!

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 22, 2019

Hi Cory:

I'm not clear on the question. Are you asking how to link the page numbers in the body of the catalog to the page numbers in the TOC, so that after you update the content you can update the TOC and all of the page numbers update?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Cory Benson
Participant
February 22, 2019

Exactly. I want the ToC to auto update if i add pages or take away pages.

hammer0909
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 22, 2019

Well you can’t have the TOC “auto” update, but all you have to do is choose Layout > Update Table of contents and all of the page numbers should update with the new page number.