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Generating the table of contents

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Generating the table of contents

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- [Lecturer] It's now time to generate our dynamic Table of Contents, and this is what it's going to look like by the time we've finished with it. And should our pagination change, all we need to do is update the table of contents to refresh the page numbers. Coming to the work in progress I'll now delete that label indicating where the contents goes, come to the layout menu and to table of contents. I'm just going to remove this one that's already there, and start with a blank slate. So, firstly, what do we want to call our table of contents? Well, I'm going to call it contents. What style do we want applied to the title? I'm going to use an auto generated style called TOC title. It's not going to look how we want it to look, we'll have to change the definition of the style but most important at this stage is that we apply the right styles to the right pieces of the table of contents. So now coming to the things that we want to include we want to include the part and we want to…

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