Manipulating the TOC: Adding text to TOC entries

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Manipulating the TOC: Adding text to TOC entries

Hi,

I'd like to manipulate table of content (TOC) entries in a Pages document. In the text there are several pieces of text by different authors. Each author's text has a title (heading) which shows up in the TOC just fine. I'd like to add the author names in brackets to the respective titles in the TOC but not to the titles in the text. How would I best achieve this?

Thanks for your help!

Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 5, 2010 7:19 PM

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fruhulda

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Dec 5, 2010 10:27 PM in response to opt03

Hi!
The only work around I can think of is that you do add the authors in the text > Give it its own heading style and colour the text to white. It will not show in the text but will in the TOC.

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Barry

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Dec 5, 2010 10:40 PM in response to opt03

opt03 wrote:
I'd like to manipulate table of content (TOC) entries in a Pages document. In the text there are several pieces of text by different authors. Each author's text has a title (heading) which shows up in the TOC just fine. I'd like to add the author names in brackets to the respective titles in the TOC but not to the titles in the text. How would I best achieve this?

From what I've read in the Pages '09 User Guide, you can alter the style of the TOC, but the content is identical to the content of the paragraphs taged to be in the TOC.

You might try adding the author names to those paragraphs/headings, then setting the text of the names to white in the heading, and all the text to black in the TOC entry.

Regards,
Barry

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opt03 Author

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Dec 6, 2010 7:33 AM in response to opt03

Thanks, I'll take this step. The TOC can be customized in Word. Too bad that the TOC is such a kludge in Pages and needs ugly hacks like this.

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fruhulda

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Dec 6, 2010 7:45 AM in response to opt03

I fully agree. Tell Apple your view and maybe the next version will be better.
_ http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html_

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