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I am making a math book, which has many step by step instructions to solve problems. I want to make a list of All Instructions in beginning which similar to the table of contents "List of Images" and "List of Tables" we have.

Is there a way to do this.

Pratyush
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Use the tocloft package.

% newlistofprob.tex  (revised) SE 566579

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
%% the next creates a \listofinstruction macro
\newlistof[chapter]{instruction}{ins}{All Instructions}
%%% a guess at your instruction command
%\newcommand{\instruction}[1]{%
%  \refstepcounter{instruction}
%  \par\noindent\textbf{Instruction \theinstruction} #1
%  \addcontentsline{ins}{instruction}{\protect\numberline{\theinstruction}}\par}
\newenvironment{instruction}[1]{%
  \refstepcounter{instruction}
  \noindent
  \textbf{Instruction \theinstruction\ #1 }\par
  \addcontentsline{ins}{instruction}{\protect\numberline{\theinstruction}#1}%
  }%
  {\par}


\usepackage{etoolbox}
%% insert space in listofinstruction between chapters
\pretocmd{\chapter}{\addtocontents{ins}{\protect\addvspace{10pt}}}{}{}


\begin{document}
\listofinstruction
\chapter{First}
\begin{instruction}{An instruction}
  text of the instruction
\end{instruction}


%\instruction{Another instruction}
\begin{instruction}{Another instruction}
  text of the instruction
\end{instruction}


\chapter{Second}


\begin{instruction}{An instruction}
  text of the instruction
\end{instruction}


\begin{instruction}{Another instruction}
  text of the instruction
\end{instruction}


\end{document}

Please read the tocloft manual for more detailed explanation. As you have not provided an MWE I have no idea how you have coded for "instructions". I provided something but I'm sure that not what you have done, but it gives you an idea of what is needed to get an instruction into the listofinstruction.

EDIT: I have changed my answer to give what I think might be more appropriate for the OP.

Peter Wilson
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  • Thank you, so much for the answer! My last question was about coding instructions are in this link. The answer for coding steps was just what I wanted and hence, is accepted. Instructions have a heading, then plain text as description and steps written using 'paracol' package. – Pratyush Oct 21 '20 at 04:18
  • Excuse my utterly noob question ,but I need to know what MWE stands for? – Pratyush Oct 21 '20 at 04:22
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    @Pratyush MWE --- Mininum Working Document --- code from \documentclass... to \end{document} that we can compile that shows your problem. There is an emphasis on "Minimal" --- do not include lots of packages that are not relevant to the problem. You can use the lipsum package for including example text. And so on. – Peter Wilson Oct 22 '20 at 18:49