Putting ToC in the back of the book

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I’ve been searching in the forums for this and couldn’t find anything that helped.

I’m writing a Kindle book, and I want my Table of Contents in the back. I’ve tried creating a document called “Table of Contents,” but without luck.

I’ve also tried putting in <$toc> in that document, but I suspect I’m doing this completely wrong. The end result is an empty page with the title, “Table of Contents”

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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If you want Scrivener to use that document as the table of contents, the name of the document must match the name set in the “Layout” pane of Compile:

That setting tells Scrivener to use the document with that title as the table of contents page; if it can’t find a document with that title, then it will create its own. That document can contain your own, custom table of contents using Scrivener links, or it can contain only the tag “<$toc>”, in which case Scrivener will generate its automatic table of contents and put it there. That tag must be the only thing in the document, though - anything else in the document, even empty space, and it won’t work. Also make sure that the document does not get joined to any other documents - make sure it has a page break before and after it.

Hope that helps.

All the best,
Keith

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Thanks for the help, Keith!

This is exactly what I’ve done.

I’ve created a document called “Table of Contents” and I’ve set that title in the settings before compiling.

When I just use this, the result is a blank page with the title “Table of Contents”

I also tried <$toc> without anything else on the page, and after compiling the Table of Contents document outputs “<$toc>” so it doesn’t seem to be getting it.

I made sure there was a page break before and after as well.

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Try exporting to PDF to double-check that the page really does have nothing on it except for <$toc> - remember it can’t have a title on it or anything either. (Try ticking “Compile As-Is” if it does.)

All the best,
Keith

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Compiling as is did the trick.

It didn’t work when I compiled to PDF though. When I compiled to .mobi it worked. Is this normal?

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<$toc> only works with e-books - I suggested compiling PDF purely to check that the <$toc> tag was the only thing on the page. Glad you got it sorted.

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Understood. Thanks a bunch for the help, Keith!