Indesign and Table of Contents

[infinitux]

Hi there. I've just completed a large amount of bulk editing on a book. I would like to generate a table of contents
a certain way, and I'm not sure how to do it right.

I did manage to generate the TOC in a basic way, but it's really not what I had imagined.

The flow of the book basically goes

Name of Story
Byline

Story content

there are well over 100 stories/writings in the book.
and I have two letter sized pages to place the full TOC.

What I would like to do, is generate the TOC so it looks nicely formatted and somewhat like this:

(column 1

Name of Author 1:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

Name of Author 2:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

Name of Author 3:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

column 2:



Name of Author 4:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

Name of Author 5:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

Name of Author 6:

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

So is there a good way to do this properly, without taking a long time in editing.

 

[eugenetyson]

You would need to have each of them named with a style.

Name of Author 1

* Storyname 1
* Storyname 2
* Storyname 3

I would name them Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4.

So when you generate the TOC it picks up all the styles with those names.

Now what you have to do is make a style for the TOC. So you would have TOC HEADING 1, TOC HEADING 2, TOC HEADING 3, TOC HEADING 4.

It's probably best to make the TOC headings first. Then when you generate the TOC you just say I want

Heading 1 - TOC HEADING 1 at Level 1
Heading 2 - TOC HEADING 2 at Level 2
Heading 3 - TOC Heading 3 at Level 2
Heading 4 - TOC Heading 4 at Level 2

This will cause your headings to step so it would look like this

Name of Author 1
Storyname 1
Storyname 2
Storyname 3

If you need to have them with the * then you can set your Heading as a Bullet and Numbered List and Choose the * for the Bullet to automatically generate the * before each Storyname.

Here's a good link.

http://indesignsecrets.com/index.php?s=Table+of+Contents&x=0&y=0&paged=2