Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 328)

322 USING INDESIGN
Long document features
Last updated 11/16/2011
Create a TOC style
1 Choose Layout > Table Of Contents Styles.
2 Click New.
3 Type a name for the TOC style you are creating.
4 In the Title box, type a title for your TOC (such as Contents or List of Figures). This title will appear at the top of the
table of contents. To specify a title style, choose a style from the Style menu.
5 From the Other Styles list, select the paragraph styles that represent content you want to include in the table of
contents, then click Add to add them to the Include Paragraph Styles list.
6 Specify options to determine how each paragraph style is formatted. (See “ Options for formatting a table of
contents ” on page 322.)
Import TOC styles from another document
1 Choose Layout > Table Of Contents Styles.
2 Click Load, select the InDesign file containing the TOC styles you want to copy, and then click Open.
3 Click OK.
Note: If the paragraph styles in your document do not match the paragraph styles in the TOC style you import, you’ll need
to edit the TOC style before generating a table of contents.
Options for formatting a table of contents
When generating or editing a table of contents, use these options to determine the appearance of the generated table
of contents text. Some of these options are available only when you click More Options in the dialog box.
Note: The settings in the Style section apply only to the style currently selected under Include Paragraph Styles. You can
specify different formatting options for each style.
Entry Style For each style in Include Paragraph Styles, choose a paragraph style to apply to the associated table of
contents entries.
Page Number You might want to create a character style that formats the page number. You can then select this style
in the Style pop-up list to the right of Page Number. (See “ Add paragraph and character styles ” on page 199.)
If you want the page numbers of the TOC to include prefixes, or to use a different numbering convention, see “ Define
section numbering ” on page 91.
Between Entry And Number Specify which characters you want between the table of contents entry and its page
number. The default is ^t, which tells InDesign to insert a tab. You can choose other special characters, such as Right
Indent Tab or Em Space, in the pop-up list. For a complete list of special characters and how to work with them, see
“
Insert glyphs and special characters ” on page 177.
Select the existing text in the box before you choose a different special character, to make sure that you don’t include
both characters.
You might want to create a character style that formats the space between the entry and the page number. You can
then select this style in the Style pop-up list to the right of Between Entry And Number. (See “
Add paragraph and
character styles ” on page 199.)
If the entry’s paragraph style includes a tab leader setting, and if the tab character (^t) is selected, a tab leader appears
in the generated table of contents. For more information, see “
Create TOC entries with tab leaders ” on page 323.