Formatting the Table of Contents
While you can manually style a Table of Contents or even apply paragraph styles to it in the traditional way, this can be quite labor-intensive as every time the Table of Contents is updated, all this styling will be removed.
In this recipe, we are going to look at how to use paragraph styles within the Table of Contents dialog box to automatically apply formatting to your Table of Contents in a way that is not impacted when you update it.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1. Having done this, create a Table of Contents as shown in the previous recipe, Generating a Table of Contents.
How to do it…
To style your Table of Contents, just follow these steps:
- Having created a Table of Contents, we are now going to look at styling it in a way that won’t be overridden when it is updated. Let...