An InDesign Table of Contents can not be created with the flick of a switch. Planning is required while creating the document as is the systematic use of Paragraph Styles. This tutorial will step through everything needed to create and beautifully format a Table of Contents in InDesign.
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TIMELINE
0:00 - Introduction

0:44 - Examination of document used in this example

2:24 - Review of Sections and page numbers

3:35 - Building a Table of Contents (TOC) from scratch

8:50 - Formatting TOC

10:54 - Right aligning TOC numbers

12:41 - Adding dots between TOC entries and page numbers

16:16 - Updating TOC after editing document

17:26 - Creating PDF Bookmarks and how to use in Acrobat


DOWNLOADS (ZIP files)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/snvtl8p4n9j...
Above ZIP file contains...
final.indd: InDesign file with completed Table of Contents
start.indd: InDesign file without Table of Contents
table-of-contents.pdf: PDF of document containing Table of Contents and Bookmarks

The InDesign files in the above download were created using InDesign CC 2019. If you have an earlier version of InDesign or are having trouble opening these files, you may like to try the IDML versions of the files contained in this ZIP file...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6az7n23v9v...