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Bob Bringhurst - Adobe — 2008-11-27T11:12:37

I'm not sure what's causing the extra number to appear. You may want to try the user forum:

www.adobe.com/support/forums

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2008-11-26T18:30:38

I have InDesign CS3 and generated a TOC for a manual. The TOC looks great except for the page numbers are followed by a space and a number. For example "Chapter 1: Introduction to Underwater Basket Weaving.......3 5". The chapter starts on page 3,but there is another number after it. The number seems to be sequential through my manual, but doesn't correspond to the chapters, so I am confused. Any suggestions?

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-08-04T17:48:05

It's possible that when you click, the text frame is empty. Try selecting it with the Selection tool. If the text frame is empty, go back and make sure the TOC includes the proper paragraph styles.

It's also possible that you're dragging a very small frame, though that's unlikely because you'd probably see it. In any case, try dragging the text frame to create the TOC. If it's still empty, then there's either a problem with the paragraph styles not being included or not be applied to the right text.

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HolmanTibbett — 2008-08-04T12:27:14

I'm trying to set up a table of contents. Everything works fine up to a point. I can see the small block of text accompanying the cursor as I bring it to the page I want to put the table of contents on, but when I click, the text block disappears and nothing else happens.

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joelkirzner — 2008-08-04T07:57:26

Well, I had the same problem and it looks like a simple fix worked for me:

Make sure that the actual table of contents.indd file has the "include Prefix when numbering pages" option checked (when on page 1). Mine wasn't checked originally while I was having the prefix issue. After I checked the option in the TOC's file, I did an update table of contents and it's all good!

Hope that helps.
Joel

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F vd Geest (WA Veghel) — 2008-07-05T06:36:24

I have the exact opposite problem:
When I generate a TOC for a book and documents in that book have a
prefix, this prefix is added in the TOC. I do NOT want this to happen. Include
prefix is off in the section options, they do not appear on the page but they
do in the TOC. Does this only happen when the TOC is generated for book
files? Any suggestion is welcome on how to not have the prefixes appaer in
the TOC.

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2008-07-01T06:14:07

Hi there

I am having a problem with InDesign CS3 - I am trying to generate a TOC for a book, however the page number prefixes are not showing up. I have read the following forum which addresses this matter:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-710a.html
however having followed the steps in that forum (ie: made sure i have a section prefix in each chapter and checked Include Preflix When Numbering Pages selected in the Book palette menu's Document Numbering Options.), i can still not get this to work. I see that one of your program testers has noted there i a bug with this and advised to contact Adobe Support.

Please help.

Thanks
Tannyth

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-06-10T07:58:32

Theoretically, if you follow the steps, the prefixes will appear in the TOC. But several people have mentioned that they've followed the steps, and for whatever reason, the prefixes aren't showing up in the TOCs. The testers are still investigating the issue. I was able to duplicate the problem, and I was able to fix it by changing the numbering options from the Book panel. I'm not sure if that works in all cases, but you may want to give it a try. If you can't get your prefixes to show up, please contact customer support. That way, real cases will get back to the testers.

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kat tea — 2008-06-09T17:20:05

Has this been fixed or is there any other way to achieve prefixes in TOC?

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-05-02T07:32:13

This appears to be a bug. I notified a member of the program team.

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spot-on — 2008-05-01T21:28:00

I have exactly the same problem! In my book, each chapter's pages have a prefix -- A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, etc. If I generate a TOC in a single chapter, the prefixes are correctly picked up. If I generate a TOC for the whole book, the prefixes are not picked up. And, yes, I *do*have the Section Prefix specified for each document, and Include Preflix When Numbering Pages selected in the Book palette menu's Document Numbering Options.

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Frontdesk Superstar — 2008-04-24T13:29:10

I followed Bob's advice for the page numbering and the numbering occurs in my different chapters but not in my Table of Contents. I have tried a number of different things and nothing seems to work. I am working in CS3. Any other hints?

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kymbix — 2008-04-24T13:12:17

Okay... but the "replace existing table of contents" option is grayed out and I can't select it. Does the TOC need to be a separate InDesign doc, or can it be part of a single document that includes all chapters, etc? I don't know why this isn't working for me! Thanks in advance...

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-04-23T16:13:04

Yes. Choose Layout > Table Of Contents, select "Replace Existing Table of Contents" and click OK. Your TOC is updated. See the topic called "Update a table of contents."

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kymbix — 2008-04-23T15:35:53

So... is there a way to have InDesign automatically update your TOC when page numbers change within your document (say, by adding or deleting pages)? Or is there a way of linking pages to the TOC so that this happens automatically without having to regenerate a whole new TOC?

Thanks for the help!

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-01-09T13:36:31

You can fix your problem by selecting each document one by one in the book panel and doing the following: choose Document Numbering Options from the Book panel menu (not from the Layout menu), specify the Section Prefix and select Include Preflix When Numbering Pages, and click OK.

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MPoulalion — 2008-01-08T19:46:31

I just came across a challenge on my first attempt at using the TOC feature
for a freelance book project I am working on and can't believe there is
nothing posted on this.

It is actually a manual and I have page numbers that use the module # then
a . then the page number of the module. ie, 3.4 is module 3, page 4.

I would like it to show up like this in the TOC. Seems the TOC only looks at
the page number. I even built the page number with a section number "3."

Am I going to have to manually use find/change to make this work?