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Bob - Adobe Writer said on Aug 31, 2007 at 11:51 AM :

There is a known bug in InDesign CS3 that occurs at times when generating a TOC in a book. The last character in the last entry of the TOC is sometimes deleted. Until this bug is fixed, a workaround is to add a trailing character (such as a zero-width space) to the end of
the source paragraph.

No screen name said on Oct 12, 2007 at 12:38 PM :

I'm I correct that I can't make a table of contents from chapter titles located only on Master pages? What good are Master pages if you can't make TOCs from them? Where should I put the document name?

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Oct 12, 2007 at 2:11 PM :

Yes, it's correct that you can't make a ToC from chapter titles located only on master pages. It makes sense to me because master pages can be (and usually are) applied to multiple pages. If you want a chapter title on a master page to appear in a ToC, simply override the master item on the page where master is applied. To do this, hold down Shift+Ctrl/Command and click the dotted text frame on the document page that contains the chapter title. Then it will show up in the ToC.

No screen name said on Apr 29, 2008 at 7:31 AM :

Is there anyway to ignore some pages on the table of contents?
For example, when we have several pages with the same title, instead of having the same title repeating for every page it appears on, to appear just once??

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Apr 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM :

One possibility is to create a second identical style. For example, if you use a "Heading1" style to apply to the same title on several pages, create a "Heading1B" style that's based on the Heading1 style. Use the Heading1 style in the TOC. If you need to edit the style, make sure you edit the Heading1 style,

ian2180 said on Jul 8, 2008 at 3:42 AM :

If I set up a book with a number of diiferent documents that each use the same template can I use the Section Markers or Chapter Name variables (and their paragraph style) to produce a table of contents or do I have to overide every page ?

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Jul 8, 2008 at 6:39 AM :

It depends. I'm not sure how you want to use them. If the chapter number variable and section marker appear in text that's formatted with a paragraph style, yes, the chapter number and section marker will appear in the toc as long as the paragraph style is included in the toc. Example: "Chapter 1: Section A...1," "Chapter 1: Section B...23," and so on.

However, if you want the chapter number variable or section marker to appear as a page number prefix in the toc, such as "Animals...1-1," "Plants 2-1," and so on, you must use section prefixes.

No screen name said on Aug 7, 2008 at 7:06 PM :

Hi,

I'm creating a contents page and I would like to ask how can I keep the numbers at the end of the tab leaders as a constant font while the content headers are changed to various font styles like bold and italics?

My current problem is that whenever i edit my content headers to have bold or italics font styles... the numbers at the end of the tab leaders also adopt the bold or italics. I would like to know how to maintain those numbers as a constant font.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Bob - Adobe Writer said on Aug 11, 2008 at 10:10 AM :

You can apply different character styles to the page number and the dot leaders, so I'm not sure why this problem is occurring. In the Table of Contents dialog box, click More Options. For Page Number, specify a style, and for the "Between Entry And Number" option, specify a different style.