You can easily include a TOC for your RoboHelp online output by opening the default TOC and adding sections and pages as needed. The TOC works fine when you output Frameless or HTML5 content. However, if you output Word or PDF content, the default TOC will not work. What's the deal?
There are two types of TOC available in RoboHelp: Online and Book. The default TOC is an online TOC and only works with online output (Frameless, HTML5). If you want to output a Word doc or a PDF and include a TOC, you must create a Book TOC and add the TOC as "front matter."
Here's how to create a TOC for Word and/or PDF output and add the required front matter:
Select Table of Contents from the list of categories at the left of the Author tab.
Click the New Table of Contents icon.
In the New Table of Contents dialog box, select Book TOC and then click the Done button.
Add sections and pages to the TOC as you would normally do.
From the top of the new TOC, click the Insert Front Matter icon and choose TOC page.
Select the Output tab, select Output Presets, and then click the New Preset icon.
Choose Word from the Type drop-down menu, give the layout an appropriate name, and click the Done button.
With the Word preset open, specify an output path.
On the Contents tab, select your Book TOC from the Table of Contents drop-down menu.
Save the project and then output the Word content.
You will likely see two Word alerts. The first one allows Word to create the TOC from the RoboHelp project. Click Yes.
The second alert allows you to ensure the entire TOC is accurate. Select Update entire table and then click OK.
The TOC is added to the Word output.
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