Table of contents: get rid of the extra returns

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Hi Community!This is something that really annoys me: why Indesign keep generating two extra paragraph returns at the end of a generated TOC?I can't see any good reason for that (maybe there is one...)In the best case, it's just ugly.In a bad case, it generates a text in excess error.And in the worst case (see pic below), it can even autoreflow and create a blank page... Googling this question didn't help to find any satisfying solution to automatically get rid of them.Would anybody have an idea on how to tweak this annoyance (or at least can someone tell me if there is a reason for it) ?ThanksVinny

winterm · Accepted Answer

Yep, I know that, but believe me, even if there is no empty paragraph, TOC still generates two extra returns.

See this ultra-minified example:

I thought it was a well-known "issue", but since you don't seem to find it "normal" behavior, I wondered if you don't get this behavior, and if not, what was your Indd version.

Cheers

Seems like it's a "feature" of earlier versions... On Win7/CS6 I have a TOC exactly as yours (with extra returns). However, on Win10/CC2017.0 (12.0.0.81 x64 build) it originally looks like you want:

cinziamarotta · Answer

HiYou probably have two paragraph returns in your text document on which you applied paragraph style that is included in the table of contents...

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