To generate a table of contents:
- Create an insertion point in a text frame.
- On the Toc panel, tap Insert to insert a table of contents at the caret.
Affinity Publisher provides the ability to easily insert and manage a table of contents (TOC) for your document.
A table of contents searches the document for text in specified text styles (typically headings) and reproduces that text in a list, normally annotated with page numbers. The document can have as many TOCs as required, but typically a single TOC at the start of your publication is used.
If you create a document with sufficient pages containing TOC-qualifying headings, you will need to plan out the number of TOC pages to accommodate the automatically generated TOC:
When a TOC has been inserted for the document, secondary, section-specific TOCs can be created (for example, TOCs for each chapter of a book). You can generate and present a secondary TOC within a selected section, including all subsequent qualifying headings, or just those within the section.
Text styles applied to TOC entries only show in the Text panel's Text Style pop-up menu when a text frame containing a generated TOC is selected. By default, new TOCs should have their own styles.
Leader tabs can be added as tab stops as part of the style used by the table of contents. The default TOC text styles can be found in the Text panel by tapping the Text Style setting's More arrow. Selecting Edit from the default TOC style's options menu will display the Edit Text Style dialog, from which you can adjust the tab stops in the Tab Stops section.
By default, there will be a single tab stop at position 0 (measured from the right edge). The buttons whose labels are enclosed in parentheses set the leader, and by default there is none. Select Tab stop leader character, represented as (.), and then type your required leader in the Character field.
To generate a table of contents:
To update your table of contents manually:On the Toc panel, do one of the following: