Table of Contents Tools

Adding Table of Contents to publications to help with navigation and accessibility.

Add Extended Table of Contents

Table of Contents Tools
Add a CircularFLO Table of Contents panel with 20 empty rows to the pasteboard of the current InDesign document.

The Table of Contents Panel is an InDesign table can that can be added to the pasteboard of any InDesign spread.

Text typed or paste into the left column becomes the Table of Contents entry shown to the ebook reader and the corresponding page number to navigate to is entered in the right column.

A large CirculasrFLO Table of Contents shows three columns with dozens of entries linking contents names to page numbers

For longer books, levels of grouping or 'nesting' can be added by adding one or more chevrons (the greater than symbol) in front of the table of contents entry text.

There are additional tools to add and remove nesting chevrons to a grosup of selected entries.

Increase indent and Reduce Indent tools are shown
An ebook table of contents is shown with a section grouped together under a heading
Result of adding TOC nesting shown in the ebook reader

Only one Table of Contents Panel should be added to the document(s) for the ebook. If more rows are needed then extend the table and add columns to the text frame to accomodate. For larger publications an addition tool Add Extended Table of Contents can be used which starts with one hundred rows and three columns.

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Table of Contents Tools

Add Section markers to TOC

Table of Contents Tools
Add a CircularFLO Table of Contents panel with 20 empty rows to the pasteboard of the current InDesign document.

Following the use of the section markers from the CircularFLO Accessibility Tools Panel, the identified sections are added to a the clipboard ready for pasting into the Table of Contents panel.

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Table of Contents Tools

Add Table of Contents Panel

Table of Contents Tools
Add a CircularFLO Table of Contents panel with 20 empty rows to the pasteboard of the current InDesign document.

The Table of Contents Panel is an InDesign table can that can be added to the pasteboard of any InDesign spread.

Text typed or paste into the left column becomes the Table of Contents entry shown to the ebook reader and the corresponding page number to navigate to is entered in the right column.

A large CirculasrFLO Table of Contents shows three columns with dozens of entries linking contents names to page numbers

For longer books, levels of grouping or 'nesting' can be added by adding one or more chevrons (the greater than symbol) in front of the table of contents entry text.

There are additional tools to add and remove nesting chevrons to a group of selected entries.

Increase indent and Reduce Indent tools are shown
An ebook table of contents is shown with a section grouped together under a heading
Result of adding TOC nesting shown in the ebook reader

Only one Table of Contents Panel should be added to the document(s) for the ebook. If more rows are needed then extend the table and add columns to the text frame to accommodate.

For larger publications an additional tool Add Extended Table of Contents can be used and when added to that starts with one hundred rows and three columns.

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Table of Contents Tools

Increase Indent

Table of Contents Tools
Inset TOC entries to add levels to the ebook TOC.

Add a > character to the beginning of selected rows of the table of contents which is used to indent or 'nest' entries at a different level beneath a heading. Can be used multiple times.

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Reduce Indent

Table of Contents Tools
Remove a level on nesting for an ebook Table of Contents

Remove a > character from the beginning of selected rows of the table of contents which is used to indent or 'nest' entries at a different level beneath a heading. Can be used multiple times.

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