TOC failure

[Richard Turner]

I have a complete picture book created in Publisher, but can't seem to create a decent Table of Contents. I've tried to watch the video tutorial, but being deaf find it hard to follow without subtitles. Is there a transcript available?

[Old Bruce]

To make a Table of Contents (ToC) you need to have at least one Paragraph Style for Headings in the section/chapter/place you want an entry. You could use Captions or names of the Pictures in your case. Regardless you need a Paragraph Style.

A trick to use is to make a paragraph style and name it Caption for ToC. You can then apply this to captions, if you don't want to have these captions showing place them behind the photograph/drawing. 

The ToC will be made of whatever is in the captions so if the caption is "Image 1" the ToC will have

Image 1 .........  2

Image 2 ........  5

etc.

I prefer to make a separate set of captions for a ToC with its own Paragraph Style and then I hide those captions behind the pictures.

[Dan C]

Hi @Richard Turner,

33 minutes ago, Richard Turner said:

I've tried to watch the video tutorial, but being deaf find it hard to follow without subtitles. Is there a transcript available?

All of the tutorials on the Affinity Site should have CC (Closed Captions) available in multiple languages - 

Please do let me know if you're still unable to locate this 

[Richard Turner]

OK, got that. I'm making progress, but looking at the styles panel for my TOC 22 I have lots of stuff with a little a in front of it and often the word "number" after it. These don't seem to be covered in the video. Help appreciated

 

[Richard Turner]

Thanks also to Old Bruce. I'm not using captions for the pictures. It's a digest of last year's blog posts* so I describe the pictures in the text. All I need is Heading 1 in say 16pt type and Heading 2 in 14pt indented. However, although it's choosing the right words for  Heading 1, Heading 2 is all over the place. I used Artistic Text for most of the headings and stretched some of them. Should they all be in paragraph text?

 

*phototwynog.co.uk if anyone is interested.

[Dan C]

20 hours ago, Richard Turner said:

OK, got that. I'm making progress, but looking at the styles panel for my TOC 22 I have lots of stuff with a little a in front of it and often the word "number" after it. These don't seem to be covered in the video. Help appreciated

Glad to help

I believe the 'a' you're referring to indicates it is a Character Style, and not a Paragraph Style:

Character Style - 

Paragraph Style - 

I'm not 100% certain what you're referring to in regards to 'number' however, could you please provide a screenshot of this for me?

[Richard Turner]

Many thanks Dan C. Perhaps you can help with another problem. My TOC keeps loosing its page numbers. Here's a screenshot:

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, Richard Turner said:

My TOC keeps loosing its page numbers.

In the TOC panel each text style has a settings icon on the right. Do you have the option set there to include the page number for those entries?

[Richard Turner]

Thanks for the reply

Here are two screen shot. The first shows the TOC panel settings, the second the TOC Style panel settings. No mention of page numbers.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Richard Turner said:

No mention of page numbers.

In the TOC panel, go directly to the right from a text style name to the Settings icon on the right (looks like 3 stacked lines, or a hamburger). Click it.

[Richard Turner]

Got it - many thanks. I'm almost there. I started on this two weeks ago and its been a steep learning curve. 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.