TOCs?

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I’m new to the program and haven’t dug very deep into it yet, but someone asked me this, and I’m curious myself.

Say I write a separate page in Scrivener for each chapter, then I want to export it to Word. (or even iWork’s Pages app.)

Can Scrivener generate a Table of Contents automatically, including links to each of the pages? So if you were to generate a PDF file from it, then the TOC would not require any extra work.

If not, how about adding that to the “Wish List”?

Thanks
-David

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Seems to me, that the Binder is nothing else than a live Table Of Contents.
As for the final, to be published TOC, I suggest leaving its generation to the wordprocessor (or publishing app) that you will use for printing.

Paolo

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I think if you search on “table of contents” you will find KB’s official answer, but a paraphrased version is: since scrivener does not know about a “page” it can’t generate a table of contents.

That said, the multi-markdown options offer the ability to make a TOC, and just about any WP (like word and pages) can be used to generate a TOC in post.

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Hi,

As the others say, no, Scrivener can’t generate a table of contents. That’s not what Scrivener is for - Scrivener is for the first draft stage. You should generate your table of contents in a word processor after you have exported your work from Scrivener.

All the best,
Keith

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All the same, it would be tremendously helpful.

2.0? I’m sure you don’t have enough on your plate with the other features you need to implement and a newborn, right? :smiley: