Print or output a book file, Creating a table of contents, About tables of contents – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Print or output a book file
One advantage of using a book file is that you can use a single command to output—for print, preflight, package, or
export to EPUB or PDF—selected booked documents or the entire book.
1 In the Book panel, do one of the following:
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To output specific documents, select the desired documents.
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To output the entire book, make sure no documents are selected.
2 Choose an output command (such as Print Book or Print Selected Documents) in the Book panel menu.
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Creating a table of contents
About tables of contents
A table of contents (TOC) can list the contents of a book, magazine, or other publication; display a list of illustrations,
advertisers, or photo credits; or include other information to help readers find information in a document or book file.
One document may contain multiple tables of contents—for example, a list of chapters and a list of illustrations.
Each table of contents is a separate story consisting of a heading and a list of entries sorted either by page number or
alphabetically. Entries, including page numbers, are pulled directly from content in your document and can be
updated at any time—even across multiple documents in a book file.
The process for creating a table of contents requires three main steps. First, create and apply the paragraph styles you’ll
use as the basis for the TOC. Second, specify which styles are used in the TOC and how the TOC is formatted. Third,
flow the TOC into your document.
Table of contents entries can be automatically added to the Bookmarks panel for use in documents exported as
Adobe PDF.
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Tips for planning a table of contents
Consider the following when planning a table of contents:
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Some tables of contents are built from content that does not actually appear in the published document, such as a
list of advertisers in a magazine. To do this in InDesign, enter content on a hidden layer and include it when
generating a TOC.
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You can load TOC styles from other documents or books to build new tables of contents with the same settings and
formatting. (You might need to edit an imported TOC style if the names of paragraph styles in the document do
not match those in the source document.)