Page Numbers in Table of Contents - Control By Style?

Allan Karl wrote:
While I see I can control the various styles and which appear and how they look in the Pages Table of Contents, even choosing some styles to have a leader, or not.

What I would like to do is turn off the page number by style. For example, I've got Heading 1,2 & 3. I don't want to see the page numbers on Heading 3. I merely want to have them listed under Heading 2.

But pages won't let me edit the auto-generated TOC to even manually remove those numbers. But there must be an option to show or not show page numbers in a TOC?

To remove the pages numbers only then it's probably easiest to select the page number element of the TOC style (which you can do independently from the header text) and then change it to the same colour as the background, usually white.

You can have page numbers for some heading and others not.

It's always the simple things that get me! Cheers for pointing me to this.

Hey

I'm really struggling with my pages as I have created a table of contents for iWork09 but it's defaulted for the pages numbers to sit directly after the chapter rather than face the opposing side like your picture shows. I tried changing the tabs and then the text layout from left to across the page but all it does it push the numbering to the next line (for the longer titles) and push the numbers across (for the shorter named titles). I can't even get the lines to appear so that the chapter title appears, then some dots leading to the number. Any ideas?

Select the TOC and add a right tab to the ruler near the right margin.

Inspector > Text > Tabs > Tab Stops > select the tab in the list > Leader > select the dot style you want.

When a heading is too long for a line it will wrap to the next line then tab to the number.

Peter

Sorry, I understand the second bit there, but when I select my Table of Contents (highlight it with a mouse) and then go to tabs in the inspector, click on the plus and make it to the right, nothing happens, even when I increase the cm spacing in the inspector tab window. It distances the page numbers, but when I select a dot style I want, no dots appear.

On YouTube it shows a guy making the Table of Contents upon which the numbers used to appear automatically appearing on the right - does this no longer happen?

~J~

Click on my blue name and send me the file and I'll fix it for you and give you instructions how to do it in future.

Peter

I know this might infuriate you, but if you could give me instructions, I'd like to see if I could do it myself?

Those were the instructions above and they work if you haven't done something else but haven't told me about it.

I asked for the actual document to see what you are doing wrong and tell you exactly how to fix it with pointers to where you are going wrong.

I can't do it blind.

Peter

Which Pages version are you using?

Are you selecting anything in the TOC, like I did in the image above?

Type command-R to show the rulers.

Then at the top of the screen (assuming you're in centimetres), click just under "18" (in Inches this is 7.2") This will create a tabstop (triangle). Pages should automatically throw the page numbers to that tabstop.