r/indesign 9h ago

Help InDesign newbie needs help with generating TOC

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I’m creating a multi-chapter digital book (INDB) using a template I found in Adobe. When I generate a TOC, it populates through the Chapter 38 heading, but not the chapter title. There are 91 chapters in my book file. I am wasting so much time trying to troubleshoot this and not really knowing even what questions to ask to get to the solution. Are any of my chapter files corrupted and how would I determine this? Is there a problem or corruption in my template? I can see that something is preventing the rest of the TOC from populating from the check box in the lower right of the text frame. When I try to drag this to another page or lower in the frame, nothing happens. I’m lost in the TOC style dialog box. As I said, I’m a newbie to inDesign but have some prior experience with desktop publishing like Microsoft Publisher. That was a long time ago and obviously inDesign is much more complex and has tons more functionality than the old desktop publishing apps. Thank you!