Find and Remove Repeated TOC Entries

[ais007]

I created a TOC at the end of my book as my index in order to use a paragraph style. Unfortunately I'm getting repeated copies of the same entry like I show below.

4-14K...........114

4-14K...........114

4-14K...........114

404A..............65

404A..............65

Is there a way for me to find the repeated lines and remove the copies and leave only one of them? I tried creating a GREP but could not figure it out. I would greatly appreciate you help with this.

Thank you,

Tomas

[Willi Adelberger]

A TOC entry is linked to one single paragraph style entity, headline 1. Do you work with paragraph styles or are you formatting manually?

[ais007]

I work with paragraph styles. All items that need to appear in the index are assigned a single paragraph style. Once I generate the list, I then run the SortParagraphs.jsx script to sort to the correct alphabetical and numerical order. Unfortunately, I end up with duplicates because I assigned repeated items the same paragraph style within the book. In the future I plan to change the paragraph style for repeated items to prevent duplicates on my generated TOC. For now, I want to avoid the fix because it takes a long time to run the SortParagraphs.jsx script and would like to remove duplicates manually or with a GREP until I have time to make the changes for future updates. It takes a very long time to run the script because I have over 5,500 items. I also want to keep the smart page number links to print as an interactive PDF.

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

One possible solution can be found in this old blog entry from Colin Flashman: https://colecandoo.com/2012/08/30/making-picture-indexes-with-captions/

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[ais007]

Thank you very much Peter. It was excactly what I needed. It worked great!