Creating a TOC with both Section titles and chapter/poem titles

Hi,

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  ~ Andrea

If it's already in one single document, there's no need to split it. You can easily create a TOC from a single document file as from a book with multiple files.

Follow Willi's steps 2-6 above. They are the generic process for creating and executing a TOC. Just make sure you have each different type of heading formatted with its own paragraph formatting style. Paragraph styles are then used by the TOC utility to grad the content and build you a TOC.

But before you do follow his steps, insert a blank page or 2 at the front of the book to hold the TOC. When you create the TOC, InDesign will need to have a space ready to accept it and add it to your document.

Here's some good information about TOCs from Adobe's online help: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/creating-table-contents.html

Best to you.

To do it correctly I would recomment:

1. Create for each section and the TOC a single document
2. The section's headlines have to have a Paragraph Style. I name it usually as the first level h1.
3. Do the same with the poem's headlines, I would name them h2 (I keep it shourt to remember and it makes it easier to use HTML conventions as it helps to prepair EPUBs.
4. In the TOC document create Paragraph Styles for each entry level and the TOC's headline. I name it usally IHV (the German's conterpart of TOC), so you would name it toc1, toc2 and h.toc.
5. I Layout Menu go to Define a TOC style and choose the entry paragraph styles and select the toc's styles. You might expand the dialog with more options and choose to include the book files. Do all other settings as you want to do it, choose to anchor each entry.
6. Generate a toc
7. Export the book from the Book Panel Menu. You can also create links, so that the PDF user will jump to the target headlinie if he reads it in Acrobat.