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TeaBerryCreative
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March 28, 2024
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Table text in ToC

  • March 28, 2024
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I am doing a book where the author wants headers from multiple tables to appear in the table of contents. inDesign is not recognizing the paragraph titles because the text is inside multiple tables. Is this even possible? For instance, the book has over a hundred tables that are an athlete's name (as a header), then stats in cells below. That athlete's name must appear in the ToC, but inDesign is not finding the text. I'm guessing because it's not in the direct story flow and inside tables. ???

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Correct answer TeaBerryCreative

Figured it out! Basically I'm an idiot. I mistakenly had two paragraph styles named exactly the same, except one had a hyphen in between the words. I was selecting the wrong paragraph style! 🤦‍♀️

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TeaBerryCreativeAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 28, 2024

Figured it out! Basically I'm an idiot. I mistakenly had two paragraph styles named exactly the same, except one had a hyphen in between the words. I was selecting the wrong paragraph style! 🤦‍♀️

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    March 28, 2024

    Cool. Yes, style names are fussy-fussy.

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    March 28, 2024

    Just to make it crystal clear, TOCs work by finding assigned paragraph styles; that means the desired headings inside the table have to be tagged with exactly those styles.

    Susan Culligan
    Susan Culligan
    Inspiring
    March 28, 2024

    Can you provide a screenshot of the Table of Contents set-up window? That will help us figure out what's going on.

     

    The fact that the text is in independent boxes should have nothing to do with its not being grabbed for the TOC. I have a sneaking suspicion that there's something wrong with how you've entered the parameters.

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    March 28, 2024

    Working perfectly fine for me:

     

    Even with 4x levels of nesting.

     

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