TOC missing titles

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- February 12, 2016 at 9:41 am #81921
  
  tocm42
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  Hello;
  
  I’ve been creating a 250 page long class notebook with Chapters, Headings and Titles.
  
  I have created a separate style for each Chapter, Heading and title etc. so that a TOC could be generated at the end.
  
  This has worked fantastically until I noticed that a small amount of Chapters and titles were missing from the TOC. On comparing them to the other ‘working’ chapters that had appeared in the TOC I couldn’t determin any difference – the styles were the same, they were laid out correctly, all on the same layer, no overset text etc…
  
  On further analysis in Story Editor, and viewing the Hidden Characters, I noticed that the Chapters in question were missing the “:” sign attributed to a bookmark or hyperlink destination marker. (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html#view_hidden_nonprinting_characters)
  
  So, in Story Editor I copied the markers and placed them next to each chapter missing them, in the hope this would then get updated in the TOC.
  
  This unfortunately did not work, and now I am stumped.
  
  Is there anyone out there that can help get these ‘ghost’ chapters back into my Table of Contents?
  
  I am using InDesign CC on Windows 10.
- February 12, 2016 at 12:09 pm #81925
  
  David Blatner
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  I’ve had that happen when sometimes paragraph styles aren’t properly applied, or the styles that I think are applied actually aren’t. For example, maybe you accidentally have “Heading1” and “Heading 1” styles.
- February 16, 2016 at 3:03 am #82044
  
  tocm42
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  Morning David,
  
  Thanks for your response – this was my first thought, and I have triple checked them! They are the same paragraph styles, no doubt about it.
  
  Perhaps the file has become corrupted somehow…
- September 18, 2018 at 2:41 am #110425
  
  Terence Horsnell
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  Hi all
  
  I got this for the first time today. It’s one of a series of books with 250 page and around 20 chapters. In the contents, there is a list of tables. I set it to include all text styled as ‘tablecaption’ as usual. It has included all twenty of them except for one in CH4. I’ve checked the text and it’s styled correctly. It has gone to print now, so there’s going to be trouble. Anything else I can look at, or is this, as I’m convinced, another bug?
- April 5, 2019 at 6:35 am #115848
  
  John Erickson
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  So, no resolution of this? This happens literally every single time I try to generate a TOC. It NEVER works properly. Usually what I have to do is export to idml and reopen it – this clears out most bugs. My current project though, not even that works. Everything is tagged properly, and it simply WILL NOT include certain entries. It drives me INSANE. And I’ve experienced this for years, through version after version. Seems to be just another bug affecting a fundamental, essential process that Adobe can’t be bothered to fix.
- April 5, 2019 at 7:04 am #115849
  
  David Blatner
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  It’s so hard to know what the problem could be, because for 99% of InDesign users, we never have this kind of problem. The fact that roundtripping to IDML often helps is a clue that there is perhaps something corrupted in the document or your preferences.
- June 2, 2021 at 10:33 am #14339791
  
  Susan Krupkowski
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  I’m having this problem for the first time today. I’ve used InDesign since version 1.0, and was an Adobe Certified InDesign Instructor for about 20 years. I’ve created many dozens of Books, with ToCs, and never had an unsolvable problem. Using a book, the ToC picks up info from the first 6 documents, but not the 7th. I’ve checked and rechecked the styles applied, removed and re-added the doc from the book, and done everything else (even things that shouldn’t make a difference).
  
  I’m stumped, and would love to know if others have had this problem.
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