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Properties Dialog Box, Document Properties, Table of Contents
If you arrived here from Workstation, see the Workstation Document Authoring Help.
The Table of Contents section in the Properties dialog box lets you include and format a table of contents in an exported PDF. A table of contents allows a user to quickly access specific areas of the PDF. In the exported PDF, users can click on a label or page number in the table of contents to jump to that area. An entry is automatically created in the table of contents for each element of each grouping field and, if the document contains multiple layouts, each layout. For example, if the grouping field is Regions, elements include North and South. For details and steps to create a table of contents, see the Formatting Documents chapter of the Document Creation Help.
You can create a table of contents only if a document has multiple layouts or is grouped. If the PDF has bookmarks, the table of contents is listed in the bookmark panel. If a PDF includes a table of contents, the bookmarks may be redundant. For steps to prevent bookmarks from being generated for a PDF, see the Formatting Documents chapter of the Document Creation Help.
The following options are available:
- Include Table of Contents: Select this checkbox to include a table of contents in the exported PDF. This checkbox is cleared by default.
- Title: To display a title for the
table of contents, type the text of the title in the field. If the
Title field is blank, the
title will be displayed as Table of Contents.
- Align: Specify the text alignment to use to display the title. The options are Left (default), Center, and Right.
- Font: To format the font used
to display the title, click the Format
icon
.
The Font Formatting dialog box opens. Select the appropriate font
formatting options such as the font type, font size, color, and
so on. A preview of your selected font formatting is shown in
the Sample area. Click OK
when you have made your selections. This option is only available
if the Inherit Formatting From Body option is selected. - Fill Color: From the color palette, select a color to apply to the background of the title. To access additional colors, click More Colors. This option is only available if the Inherit Formatting From Body option is selected.
- Inherit Formatting From Body: Select this checkbox to format the title of the table of contents using the formatting options selected for the entries in the table of contents.
- Body: Specify formatting options
to apply to the entries in the table of contents.
- Font: To format the font
used to display the entries in the table of contents, click the
Format icon .
The Font Formatting dialog box opens. Select the appropriate font
formatting options such as the font type, font size, color, and
so on. A preview of your selected font formatting is shown in
the Sample area. Click OK
when you have made your selections.
- Fill Color: From the color palette, select a color to apply to the background of the entries. To access additional colors, click More Colors.
- Font: To format the font
used to display the entries in the table of contents, click the
Format icon
- Indentation: Specify the amount
of indentation to apply to entries in the table of contents.
- Left: Type the amount of space to display between the left border of the table of contents and the entries.
- Right: Type the amount of space to display between the right border of the table of contents and the entries.
- Borders: Specify the formatting
options to use to display the border around the table of contents.
- Style: Select the line style to use to display the border.
- Color: Select the line color to use to display the border.
- Weight: Type the line thickness to use to display the border.
- Show tab leader: Determine whether to include tab leaders in the table of contents. A tab leader is a series of dots connecting a table of contents entry with its page number. Tab leaders can help users accurately select the correct entry or page number. This checkbox is selected by default.
- Include Page Header/Footer: Determine whether to include the page header and footer on the table of contents page in the exported PDF. This checkbox is cleared by default.
- Before layout: If the document contains multiple layouts, you can determine where in the document to display the table of contents. By default, the table of contents is displayed before the first layout. However, you can select a different layout from the drop-down list. The table of contents will be displayed before the selected layout when the document is exported.