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How to Edit ePub Table of Contents for Windows/Mac?

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We always says that reading ePub books on your portable devices is a good reading experience for all of us, but sometimes there were some errors in the table of contents, which may result in a bad impression to its readers and waste their time to find the right page or contents in the file. So as the owner of the ePub book, you must want to fix these errors and get the best experience in your life, right?

Brief Introduction of ePub Table of Contents

Generally speaking, an ePub document should have two separate tables of contents. The first one is built-in to the epub file and the other always be included in an ePub document as a bookmark, which can list the whole link to each TOC entry. We can say that ePub document is actually just like a mini web site, which is complete with pages of XHTML code, a CSS stylesheet, and a folder containing all images or links to the images. So if you want to edit the catalogue of your ePub book, you need to edit the corresponding XHTML codes as well as the CSS for the bookmark links, just as what you have to do with a web page.

From this, you must have found that it is not easy to edit the ePub table of contents on your computer directly. So here you need to ask help from a professional yet reliable ePub editing software - iStonsoft ePub Editor Pro. With it, you can easily edit the catalogue, metadata, add cover or insert images to your ePub files without any limitation. And it will never take problems that you may meet while you're using other editing software.

Now, just get this powerful program to see how easy to modify your ePub table of contents on your computer.

Tips: The Mac version is coming soon.

Tips to Edit, Modify Catalog Table in ePub Files

Step 1. Run the Program and Load ePub File

Launch the program on your computer and then click "Open" button on the top of panel to select and load the ePub files into the program from your local disk. After that, you'll see a interface just like the below. Here, you can double click these separate HTML files and preview the contents as you like.

Step 2. Edit ePub Catalogue

In the right panel of the program, you can see all chapters have been listed here. To edit them, you need to click "TOC" option in the top of the panel, and then a pop-up window will appear on your PC. Here, your table of contents will be displayed in the order of Level, Table of Contents Entry Title and Link to.

You can edit and change the contents of the catalogue by clicking the buttons on the right panel, just like Add Above, Add Below, Delete, Level 1, Level 2, Default, etc. After done all the changes you want, you can hit "OK" button to save them in the document permanently.

Step 3. Save EPUB Files

Here, you are also supported to add some other effects to this imported file with its built-in functions. When all settings have done, please hit "Save" button on the top of the panel to finish the editing process.

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