InDesign catalog and titles of sections for TOC

Thank you all so much for your help and advice. I am learning something new every week in this program. This has been a big help.

My apologies to my first post. I did not mean to specify a range of pages in the TOC. I would not want that.

I should have had:
Accessories... 4Kits... 11

Hmm... I can't give a fully satisfying answer to your question, but I do have some worries, and some tips.

First off, it's not possible to have this "from – to" format as a page number reference.

And now my first worry: the TOC mechanism works with Paragraph Styles. The reason why you're getting so many entries (for each page) while there should only be one starting number, is that you've probably used the running title in a certain Paragraph Style, and are using that style's occurrence as the trigger for a new entry.

Try using a uniquely used heading's Paragraph Style for the TOC, not the label at the top of the page.

Adobe Help: Create a table of contents in InDesign

And the tip: as a matter of fact, you might consider using Text Variables (running titles in this setup) to automatically populate those labels on the top of the page, depending on the most recent title/heading with a certain Paragraph Style of the section.

Adobe Help: Create and edit text variables in InDesign.

As a matter of interest, this month's issue of InDesign Magazine (No 124) is devoted to building Catalogs. I'm not saying it will answer this question but no doubt it will be of interest anyway to those creating catalogs with InDesign:

https://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-magazine-issue-124-building-catalogs.php

I know of no automated solution for you, but I do know a couple of manual ones which may work for you.

1) To get the Accessories header, and a single entry for the Accessories section, create a duplicate style for your current header style.

     a) Click into your Accessories header on page 5, and if it's not open, display your Paragraph Styles panel.

     b) Go to the flyaway menu (the one opened with the three-line "hamburger" icon at the upper-right of the panel and

          select the Duplicate Style... menu command. Name the new style Header - No ToC.

     c) Apply that style to the headers on pages 5-10. When you rer-generate the ToC, it'll only include Accessories...4 and not

          the other entries.

2) After you generate the ToC, manually enter the listing to read Accessories...4-10.

You can also, of course, just delete the entries for pages 5-10, and perform the same edit for the first Accessories entry. Either option will work, but the short story is that without some kind of third-party extension or custom script, I know of no way to do this automatically. Wish I had a better answer for you, but this is all I've got for now.

That doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be one in the future. If you submit a feature request using the link below, the product team will see it and perhaps an automated solution could be added to future versions of InDesign:

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Wish I had a better answer for you ...

Hope this helps.

Randy