Table of Contents Won't Generate

[clangton456]

I can see the all of the Table of Contents in the Story editor. Its all there. But I see nothing in the layout. How can I fix this aspect of the missing Table of Contents.

[Laubender]

clangton456  wrote

I can see the all of the Table of Contents in the Story editor. Its all there. But I see nothing in the layout. How can I fix this aspect of the missing Table of Contents.

Hi,

do you see an empty frame in the document?

Do you see an overset text frame?

Regards,
Uwe

[Barb Binder]

Hi clangton456​:

In addition to Uwe's questions, click on the first paragraph in Story Editor view and check the Keep Options. Are there any settings in there copied from the source files that are oversetting the text?

~Barb

[happie_97]

Hi,

I think more information might be needed if the previous suggestions aren't working.

Instantly I wonder...Are you creating a book? If so, do you have "Include Book Documents" checked in the Table of Contents dialog box?

[lucyt39961655 · Accepted solution]

I just ran into this problem after spending hours formatting a complicated 50 page file - TOC cheerfully says "TOC has been generated", but nothing shows up.

What I did was to open a new empty file, drag and drop my thumbnail pages into it, and voila, TOC now generates quite normally.

[Steve Werner]

@Lucy,

That sounds like the original file got corrupted. It might also have been fixed by saving as an IDML file (File > Save > InDesign CS4 or Later [IDML] which can help eliminate corruption. Glad that worked for you.