Creating TOC and List of Figures is VERY slow!

[ap16165019]

Creating the TOC and List of Figures for a book takes 30 mins PER generation, no mater the number of documents. Why is this so slow?? (FM 2017)

[Lothar_Voigt]

Big book? Many pages? Lots of headings?

[Barbara Ash · Accepted solution]

I've found that opening all files in the book will speed up the process. With the book file active, hold down Shift as you select File > Open All Files in Book. Then create the TOC and List of FIgures.

[Barb Binder]

I routinely open all the files in the book as well when doing book updates. I'm curious to see if the makes a difference for you. I haven't experienced any slow downs with book updates or making PDFs (which has been an issue in the past) in 2017.

~Barb

[Barb Binder]

Did that make the difference, ap16165019 ? I'll have to try closing my files to see if I experience that slowdown.

~Barb

[ap16165019]

Opening all the files significantly helped the load time.

Thanks!