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• Table Of Contents In Pdf Files

Combine two or more PDF files into a single PDF file. Try the Foxit Online Merge PDF tool for free. Foxit PhantomPDF Mac allows users to create, edit, convert, OCR & perform other editing of PDF files on Mac. Some pdf documents don't have a table of contents. Some of these documents do have bookmarks which can be shown in the left side of the adobe acrobat program, with a slide-in menu. Acrobat should have the data to generate an table of contents for easier navagation in a large document or pdf-book.

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Create a Table of Contents in Word

A table of contents (TOC) is important for a good eBook reading experience. A working TOC allows readers to navigate between chapters easily. By following the instructions on this page, you'll create two types of TOCs for your eBook:

• TOC page. Also called an HTML TOC, this is a page at the beginning of your book with links to each chapter.
• Kindle Interactive TOC. Also called the NCX, this TOC is displayed in the Kindle menu and can be accessed from anywhere in the book

Want a tool that can help you create an eBook TOC quickly and easily? Check out Kindle Create.

PC

Apply chapter styles Highlight your first chapter title. Go to the Home tab. In the 'Styles' section, click Heading 1. Repeat these steps for all chapter titles.

Insert TOC Click where you want to insert your table of contents. Go to the References tab and click Table of Contents. Choose Automatic Table 1. Click Table of Contents again, but this time choose Custom Table of Contents. In the dialog box that appears, clear the Show Page Numbers box. Set Show levels to 1 and click OK. When asked if you want to replace the table of contents, click OK.

Add bookmark Highlight the table of contents title 'Contents.' Go to the Insert tab. In the 'Links' section, click Bookmark. In the Bookmark name field, enter 'toc' (without quotes), and click Add. Insert a page break after your table of contents.

Mac

Apply chapter styles Highlight your first chapter title. Go to the Home tab. Under 'Styles,' click Heading 1. Repeat these steps for all chapter titles.

Insert TOC Click where you want to insert your table of contents. Go to the References tab and click Table of Contents. Choose Classic. Click Table of Contents again, but this time choose Custom Table of Contents. In the dialog box that appears, clear the Show Page Numbers box. Set Show levels to 1 and click OK. When asked if you want to replace the table of contents, click Yes.

Add bookmark Highlight the table of contents title 'Table of Contents.' Go to the Insert tab. Click Links section and choose Bookmark. In the Bookmark name field, enter 'toc' (without quotes), and click Add. Insert a page break after your table of contents.

If you flip back through your course notes, you’ll see that last week we explored using Preview to edit and annotate images. But as I explained in that lesson, Preview has powers beyond images. It’s also Apple’s default PDF reader. And while it’s no substitute for Adobe Acrobat Pro as a PDF document creator and editor, it has some useful talents of its own. We’ll explore those talents now.

Note: Throughout this discussion we’ll be talking about unencrypted PDF files. When dealing with encrypted PDFs, you may not be able to perform some of these tasks.

Navigating and viewing PDFs

When you double-click a PDF file, it opens, by default, in Preview. The first time you launch it, you’ll see the first page of the file (if it has multiple pages). You can navigate through the document by scrolling down or by dragging the document’s scrollbar, but there’s an easier way to make your way through it.

In the window’s upper-left corner is the View menu. Click it and you’ll see several options: Content Only, Thumbnails, Table of Contents, Highlights and Notes, and Contact Sheet. You’ll also see options for Continuous Scroll, Single Page, and Two Pages. Here’s how they work.

Content Only is a sidebar-less window that displays the contents of your document. Click Thumbnails to expose Preview’s sidebar, where each page of the document is represented by a small page image. You can quickly move to a different page by clicking its thumbnail. Table of Contents is useful if the document has such a thing—a page (or pages) with embedded links that, when clicked, take you to related pages. If the document lacks a Table of Contents, you’ll see only the title of the document.

If you’ve highlighted text within the document or added text notes (both of which we’ll cover later), those alterations will appear as short text snippets within the sidebar. Click a snippet to jump to a page where the related highlight or note appears. This is a very handy way to get through a long PDF file that you’ve annotated. The Contact Sheet view places thumbnails of the document’s pages in the main window, and you can zoom in on the thumbnails to get a better idea of what they contain. You can’t zoom in on the pages in Thumbnails view.

The last three options—Continuous Scroll, Single Page, and Two Pages—govern how Preview displays pages in the main window. Choose Continuous Scroll to scroll smoothly between pages. A page break will appear between each one. When you use a scrolling control in Single Page view, you’ll jump from one page to the next; you won’t see the text from a preceding or succeeding page as you scroll up or down. For its part, Two Pages shows you two pages side by side. If your document has an odd number of pages, the first page will appear by itself. You’ll see the two-page layout only when you select the second and subsequent pages.

These visual controls are useful for short documents. But when you’re working with a PDF that contains hundreds of pages and you know approximately which page you wish to navigate to, turn to the Go to Page command found in Preview’s Go menu. Just enter a page number in the appropriate field and click OK.

Speaking of long PDF files, Preview wouldn’t be much of a PDF tool if it didn’t allow you to mark your place in long documents. Fortunately, it does. When you find a place that you’d like to mark, choose Bookmarks > Add Bookmark (Command-D). Then enter a name for your bookmark and click Add. To return to this bookmark, click it in Preview’s Bookmarks menu.

Adding and rearranging pages

Table Of Contents Template For Word

One PDF problem that people often encounter involves having multiple PDFs that they’d like to combine into a single file. This is easy to do in Preview.

To combine PDF files, open one of the files, click the View menu, choose Thumbnails, and drag the other PDF file from the Finder into the Thumbnail pane where you’d like that dragged document to appear. Drag it above the first thumbnail if you’d like the dragged pages to appear first; drag it below the other thumbnails to append it to the end; or drag it somewhere in the middle to insert the pages at an in-between location.

You don’t have to combine entire documents. If you want to copy just a page or two from one PDF to another, just open each document in Preview, expose the Thumbnail views in the View menu in each window, select the pages you want to copy from one document to the other, and drag them into that other document’s Thumbnail pane.

Table Of Contents In Pdf Files

Finally, to rearrange the order of pages, expose the Thumbnail pane again and drag pages to wherever you’d like them to appear.