: InDesign: Updating ToC causes All Document Text to Disappear I am using a template supplied by the service bureau. After adding 200+ pages of body text, I returned to the table of contents,

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I am using a template supplied by the service bureau. After adding 200+ pages of body text, I returned to the table of contents, and updated it. The red box (overset text) appeared. The next page was blank, containing only a blue hidden crosshatch (#) character. I clicked on the red box, got a loaded arrow, and clicked on the page with the blue crosshatch. The ToC updated properly. I went through the document where there were a few unneeded blank pages and deleted them. Now when I update the Table of Contents, all the text in the entire document disappears. If I undo that action, the ToC and the rest of the document's pages reappear, but the ToC isn't updated and contains entries with incorrect page numbers. How can I fix this?

Update: Apparently a ToC has to be within its own "story" in an InDesign file. I think, though I'm not sure, that the "story" was demarcated by the blue crosshatch character(#). In the version of the file that's giving me problems, now there is only one blue crosshatch at the end of the file. If there was a way to insert the blue crosshatch at the end of the ToC this might solve the problem but I have no idea as to how to do do this.

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