I am going CRAZY here. I have several full page images to add to a word processing document. I've tried everything but I cannot get them to show up in the Table of Contents. I can add them no problem but they simply do not show up in the TOC. I've been googling for hours. It's driving me mad can anybody help????
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Here is another approach. I used the heading and heading 2 paragraph styles (bold), and then I entered the exact text that would be in the image caption. I applied the caption paragraph style to that text string, and set the text to white. This I followed with an image and the normal caption text below it.
By default, when the ToC is generated, it only picks up the Heading paragraph style, and one has to select that in the ToC, and then visit the Table of Contents tab in the right panel, and add the Heading 2 and Caption styles to that they would also appear in the ToC. The resulting ToC looks like this:
from the original page:
The table of contents is constructed by recognized Paragraph styles and has nothing to do with the image content in the document.
I am on an iPad Pro right now, so do not have access to Pages for Mac until later today. This is untested, but I wonder if you can apply an existing, or new paragraph style to the caption (or title) associated with your images and if the Insert TOC will pick those up new additions up?
Thanks again Viking
Thank you for your reply. That seems like a bit of a design limitation. I wish the images, which are contained in my appendices, to be specified in my TOC, as one would expect. I wonder what the solution is?
You are welcome.
Thank you very much for your advice. I think the use of the caption text should be the answer but curiously although I tick the caption box the TOC will not pick up the caption text at all. I think that your workaround of using a heading behind the image in white text is probably the best solution. Another possibility I think would be to ignore the toc and instead have an independent table of figures which is entered manually but I'm not sure how to align the text with dot headers.
The white text has the Caption paragraph style applied to it, and that will show up in the TOC when you select the caption box in the TOC panel. It is not picking up the caption text from the image, because it is not a paragraph style, and is likely enclosed in a text box.
Pages Problem: Images in a Table of Conents
