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Alternative uses for the TOC feature

Alternative uses for the TOC feature - InDesign Tutorial

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Alternative uses for the TOC feature

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- [Instructor] Table of contents is the most versatile of InDesign's long document features. You can use it for a lot more than just TOCs. Use it anytime you need to make a list of content, within a document or a book. Think of things like photo credits, lists of advertisers, lists of tables and figures and so on. For example, here I'd like to make a photo credits page with the table of contents feature. And the key point here is that I can set up a table of content style to gather information, even though that information won't appear anywhere else on the pages of my document. And there are a few ways to accomplish this. Here, I'm going to use an option in the table of contents to include items on hidden layers. So, let's set that up. We're going to take photo credit information that's stored in each image file placed in my InDesign layout. It's stored as metadata, and we're going to put it on the page with InDesign's…

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