Table of contents in a book

[Rainieria]

Could really use an instructional video on this. It has me defeated.

I have several files set up as a book and am trying to insert a TOC into the "preface" which has no text styles as they start in the next file, the "introduction"

Nothing I do in the TOC panel has any effect, I've tried many combinations, I guess selecting Book as the scope and all text frames should do it. I've also got a list of style names showing and have a couple ticked.

No table of contents entries found

... then the Scope resets to Document so I'm guessing it's not recognising the Book

 

 

[walt.farrell]

It is probably best to have your Text Styles in the first chapter (the preface, for you), but if you set the introduction chapter as the source in the Books panel you should be able to synchronize the Text Styles into the preface. 

However, I'm not sure that will help this problem. 

I've only played with TOCs in a Book a little bit, but I did not have your problem, so there may be something else going on. If you could provide a sample that would help. Perhaps make a copy of your preface and the introduction, and create a new Book using them, and give us the .afbook and both .afpub files? You could even replace most of the text with filler, or remove it completely, as long as some headings with their Text Styles remain.