In this week’s free InDesign Secrets video, David Blatner reveals another use for the Table of Contents feature in Adobe InDesign: namely, that it’s not just a TOC creation tool, but it can also create a list from text tagged with a specific paragraph style throughout your document.
In this example, David shows you how to create a list of people included in your layout’s photographs by using a layer of hidden text.
1. First create captions for all your photographs.
2. Isolate the captions on a single layer in your document, assign the same unique paragraph style to all of them, and hide the visibility of the layer.
3. Choose Layout > Table of Contents to open the Table of Contents dialog.
4. Select the paragraph style you applied to your hidden text.
5. Check Include Text on Hidden Layers option and click OK.
This video is a great example of the TOC feature’s uses, but you could create a list of anything, such as a list of advertisers in a layout for a magazine or yearbook.
Looking for more InDesign insights? Join Anne-Marie Concepción in a lynda.com member-exclusive video called Threading a bunch of frames together quickly (and unthreading too).
And as always, David and Anne-Marie will be back in two weeks with more InDesign Secrets.
Interested in more?
• The entire InDesign Secrets biweekly series
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• InDesign FX weekly series
• InDesign CS6 Essential Training
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