Add a background color to the Table of Contents

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aligeek Author

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Add a background color to the Table of Contents

I've tried several ways of adding a background color to the table of contents with no real viable solution:

1. Give the text a background color (this doesn't create any padding around the box)
2. Add a shape (I'm not able to "Send to Back" so it sits on top of the Table of Contents)
3. Make the above-mentioned shape a Section Master (Arrange > Section Masters) which creates the desired result except that it duplicates on all pages in that section.

Any suggestions?

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 7:58 AM

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Answer 1

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VikingOSX

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Mar 16, 2021 9:21 AM in response to aligeek

Your ToC should be in its own section. Then in the next section, you can visit the Document panel > Section, and deselect Match previous section to gag repetition of your section master shape.

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brbo

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Mar 16, 2021 3:52 PM in response to aligeek

If you do not need your Table of Contents to be interactive, and if you have image-making software ( Photoshop, Gimp or such) you might try creating the Table of Contents as an image of text on the background colour, just as you wish.

Cheers.

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Answer 3

VikingOSX

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Mar 16, 2021 1:54 PM in response to aligeek

Although you can insert a section break right after your ToC, it will introduce a new blank section page at the end of your last section. That does not solve your current issue of isolating the ToC in its own section to avoid replication of your section master shape into the rest of your first section pages.

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aligeek Author

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Mar 16, 2021 10:21 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for your reply. I didn't want to create a new page for the ToC because it's only 5 lines long. Is there a way to create a new section on the same page?

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Add a background color to the Table of Contents

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