I'm making a table of contents. But am having an issue. I can't seem to get the page numbers to sit opposite the 'headings'. They are parked under the headings listed in the Table of Contents. I can't find any way to change the width of the Table of Contents, or the formatting of the numbers in relation to the headings. See attached screenshot. Any suggestions?
Ben
Hi Ben,
Tested in Pages 10.0 under macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Menu > View > Show Rulers.
Click on the Table of Contents to select it.
On the horizontal Ruler, drag the upside down blue triangle on the right (the right paragraph indent) towards the right until it coincides with the left-facing blue triangle on the right (Tab Stop).
Alternatively, delete the Tab Stop.
Have a play with the blue symbols on the ruler as you keep an eye on Format > Text > Indents and Format > Text > Tabs to see what changes as you drag:
Regards,
Ian.
Hi Ben,
Tested in Pages 10.0 under macOS Catalina 10.15.4
Menu > View > Show Rulers.
Click on the Table of Contents to select it.
On the horizontal Ruler, drag the upside down blue triangle on the right (the right paragraph indent) towards the right until it coincides with the left-facing blue triangle on the right (Tab Stop).
Alternatively, delete the Tab Stop.
Have a play with the blue symbols on the ruler as you keep an eye on Format > Text > Indents and Format > Text > Tabs to see what changes as you drag:
Regards,
Ian.
Hi Ben,
Please post a screen shot with your Table of Contents selected, and with
For example,
Perhaps you could include some body text below the TOC.
Regards,
Ian.
Hi Ian, terrific ...
Here is the Table of Contents with the Document in the Inspector
Here is the Table of Contents with the Format in the Inspector
Here is the page after where the standard text starts. Neither the Format or the Document have changed.
Here is where the Table of Contents ends and the text begins (a page later). I'm not sure what that long blue line with the page on the end means? The end of the Table of Contents, a manual Page Break?
Happy to send anything else ... I know it's some odd little thing I'm missing. I was able to move the margins a bit on the Table of Contents, but it was erratic, and would sometimes lock and not move, then move ... it's those little blue arrows and bars up in the ruler that's throwing me off I think. I don't get the conventions.
All ears, and super appreciative, Ben
Hi Ian,
A great help, thank you. I'm thinking now it was an older file opening automatically in an older version of Pages. I opened it in Pages 10, and could finally see the blue tabs.
The one thing I'm having a bit of an issue figuring out ... is how to move the left margin of the T of contents further to the left. I don't want to mess with the whole document margin ... it's 85 pages of carefully laid out text. But the Table of Contents margin is too far to the right, and the little blue tab at the top doesn't seem to want to move left. ??
All ears, Ben
Hi Ben,
The horizontal blue line is a Section Break that Pages automatically inserts after a TOC.
On the ruler, the right pointing triangles are tab stops. The down-pointing triangles are left and right indents for the selected paragraphs.
My only suggestion is to delete the TOC and create a new one.
Regards,
Ian.
Thank you most kindly Ian, for going through that. I will do exactly as you suggest, tomorrow. Long day in the saddle today. Time for an ice-cream cone.
Will report back after I try a reset ...
All the best,
Bn
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