Update Multiple/All Table of Contents at once?

Adam Neal

Tagged: book, chapters, table of contents

This topic has 8 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 4 months ago by Kelly Vaughn.

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- May 26, 2017 at 5:08 pm #94869
  
  Adam Neal
  Member
  
  Hello everyone,
  
  I am working on a cookbook for a client and we are in the the early stages. I have set up a document (not a book file) with multiple chapters with their own table of contents and have a main table of contents at the front of the book and everything works well. We may be moving recipes around and adding more as time goes on. Is there a way to update multiple or all table of contents at once without selecting each one to update?
- May 27, 2017 at 9:26 am #94875
  Kai Rübsamen
  Member
  Hi Adam,
  
  this is possible, but only via scripting. Please note, that I (and others) usually provide no free scripts. Because this is a short one, I make an exception.
  
  This will update every toc in your document:
```
(function() {
  var curDoc = app.activeDocument,
  tocStyles = curDoc.tocStyles,
  nTocStyles = tocStyles.length;

  for (var i = 1; i < nTocStyles; i++) {
    curDoc.createTOC(tocStyles[i], true);
  }
})();
```
  Kai
  - May 27, 2017 at 5:55 pm #94879
    
    Adam Neal
    Member
    
    Hello Kai,
    
    That worked perfectly!! Thank you so much for your help! I really appreciate it!
    
    Let me know where I can make a donation and I am happy to pay for your time.
  - May 28, 2017 at 1:41 am #94882
    
    Kai Rübsamen
    Member
    
    Hi Adam, there are also some improvements possible. You can mail me directly at [email protected]
- May 27, 2017 at 10:02 am #94876
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
  Participant
  
  Kai,
  
  Totally right!
  
  Personally, as you know, only one-line script for free!
  
  (^/) ;-)
- May 28, 2017 at 3:01 am #94883
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
  Participant
  
  If you wanna update “all” the TOCs, use this:
  
  …
  for (var i = 0; i < nTocStyles; i++) {
  …
  
  (^/)
- December 20, 2017 at 3:32 am #100394
  
  Willy Croezen
  Member
  
  does this update All TOC’s in an entire Book-file?
- December 20, 2017 at 6:57 am #100395
  
  Kai Rübsamen
  Member
  
  No, it updates all TOCs in one document.
- December 6, 2019 at 12:04 pm #14323611
  
  Kelly Vaughn
  Participant
  
  Thank you Kai! That was exactly what I needed today. Thanks for posting the script.
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