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cindyh23311374
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October 27, 2023
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TOC Text Anchor not found?

  • October 27, 2023
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When exporting as epub I got error message 

Found TOC hyperlinks which don't have target text anchor information. Please update TOC with "Make text anchor in source paragraph" option turned on.

 

TOC Text Anchor not found : 1

  TOC text anchor "_idTOCAnchor-499" in "my file" is missing

I have already  "Make text anchor in source paragraph" option turned on. How can I find "_idTOCAnchor-499" to see what's wrong. I do have quite a bit of text that I added just for the TOC using the overlapping text box method, these are all showing up fine. I have nearly 200 entries in TOC and if I can just isolate the one problem it would be great. Thanks for the help.

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    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    October 28, 2023

    Did you create a specific EPUB TOC (for the dynamic TOC), and save it as a named style? And then specify that style name in the EPUB export?

     

    That may not be it, but leaving all of the TOC setup at defaults can sometimes confuse the export process.

     

    After doing that and re-generating the TOC, if the export still gives a problem, purge the InDesign file. Save it as IDML, then open that file and save as an INDD under a new name. Generate the TOC, and try the export again. (That process purges corrupt bits and rewrites parts of the doc structure, often fixing annoying little problems as a result.)

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    cindyh23311374Author
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    October 28, 2023

    I did create a specific EPUB TOC and saved it as a named style and then specified that style name in the EPUB export. When you say re-generating the TOC, do you mean updating it or delete and recreating it?

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    October 28, 2023

    Yes.. (And kudos for doing those steps right; they're often overlooked.) But any time a TOC is wonky, step one is to delete it, preferably do a Save-As to a new file name to purge junk like the undo data, open and re-generate the TOC. These errors are often caused by editing around a marker after the TOC is generated. (Much of this applies to Indexes, end notes, etc.  as well.)

     

    If that doesn't work, the IDML->INDD purge, after deleting the TOC, might be enough.

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