Adobe professional table of contents

No need to pay for a script.

To insert a TOC in Acrobat DC:

1. Create a TOC in Word

2. Save that as a PDF

3. Insert the TOC page into your PDF

4. Right-click on the page number in the TOC and select CREATE LINK

5. Change LINK TYPE to INVISIBLE RECTANGLE

6. For LINK ACTION, select GO TO A PAGE VIEW

8. Find the page in your PDF that corresponds to the heading in the TOC.

9. Select the heading text on the destination page.

10. Click SET LINK

Here's a video. The same principle applies to DC:

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/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/toc-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc/m-p/12148476#M87149 Jun 30, 2021 Jun 30, 2021

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lol I'm sorry but this is so ridiculous. If I'm going to do this, I might as well just avoid using Adobe altogether. I can use Microsoft word to do everything else Adobe "PRO" does too. If the solution is to open an entirely different application to do a very basic feature (included in free PDF editors and obviously EVEN IN Microsoft word) then why are we paying for Adobe. Seriously, what a waste of money.

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/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/toc-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc/m-p/12154304#M87160 Jul 02, 2021 Jul 02, 2021

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My thoughts exactly.

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/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/toc-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc/m-p/13152310#M89811 Aug 22, 2022 Aug 22, 2022

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in WORD just use the function SAVE AS, and then choose PDF.

will give you the same without all the work

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/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/toc-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc/m-p/13225921#M89969 Sep 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022

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At step 1. woula table created in Excel work just the same?

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How is it such a BASIC feature isn't in acrobat "pro"?

Seriously, why is this a product with a monthly fee that can't even perform such a basic task?

Would really love for a staff member to chime in here with a legitimate answer - instead of people trying to sell you a script for $75.

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I think the thing you are confusing is content creation versus content distribution. Yes, TOC is very basic task that any reasonably good content creator should be able to do. But Acrobat is a content distribution application so that after you have your content created you can distribute it safely into many many hands as a PDF.

Keep in mind that before the PDF, when someone created a document in Word Perfect and used a unique font and sent that out to everyone, what other people opened up would be a mess. Ironically it was the IRS that did the big push on PDF because their forms were very tight in the space that filled a page. Did you ever get sent a Word document that was supposed to be on one page and when you opened it up on your computer it spilled out over multiple pages and nothing was aligned? Happens to me all the time.

It has never happened to me if the document was properly prepared for the proper distribution, aka PDF.

To put things into historical context, here's an article that details how the PDF is affecting things and and how it came to be: