: InDesign: Order of multiple tables of contents in PDF My book file has a document that contains two separate tables of contents: one occupies pages 1-2 and the other one is on page 3. When

@Alves566

Thanks to Vinny's suggestions, I discovered the cause of the problem. The order that your bookmarks appear in the Bookmarks panel in InDesign depends on which TOC you generate first.

In my case, I have two TOCs. I could not understand why the second TOC's items were appearing before the first TOC's items in the Bookmarks panel. The reason is because I updated the second TOC before I updated the first TOC. Whichever TOC you have updated most recently will have its contents listed at the bottom of the Bookmarks panel.

I resolved the issue by updating the first TOC first, then the second TOC. Another way you could attempt to deal with a similar problem is, as Vinny suggested, to use the Sort Bookmarks command which is located under the drop-down menu in the Bookmarks panel. This seemed to sort all the bookmarks listed in the panel according to where the items appear in my documents (which may or not may be what you want).

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