Is there a way to automate creation of Bookmarks in Pages?

Thanks to you both for your suggestions/feedback.

It looks like I'll just have to wait for Apple to catch up with the other word processors out there.

A TOC is not ideal, and this document does have one. The advantage of a Document Map or Document Navigator is that one can have a sidebar in constant view with the entire structure of the document outlined. It uses the same structure "Levels" which are defined for styles that are pulled through to create a TOC. Very handy.

The Navigator on LibreOffice, formally OpenOffice, goes many steps further. With that it is possible to see a map of every kind of element that might occur in a document... headings/styles, images, links, and much more.

Bookmarks was about the only rough workaround I could think of for Pages... but it would really only be practical if I was able to automate the generation of bookmarks based on styles (headings, for instance) used in the document.

For now I shall use Word or LibreOffice for long structured documents, and Pages for shorter things.

Much thanks, again.


Jonathan

Eric wrote:>
In Pages, there is the option to "view page thumbnails" - would that help?

Thanks Eric. No, it's of little help in this case. Having little thumbnails of a 200 page document doesn't make it much easier to see the over all structure and navigate from one heading to another.

I appreciate the suggestion.

Eric wrote:

1) He said libreoffice is the new name for openoffice, which isn't true.
2) Openoffice may be owned by Oracle, but it's still open source (which is why so many other office suites are based on the openoffice code, e.g., NeoOffice and LibreOffice, as well as others.)

If you're going to say "libreoffice, formally openoffice" you have to back that up with some truth.

Thanks Eric.
My mistake. The last time I checked the opensource world was awash with statements to the effect that OO was dead. I then discovered that LibreOffice was picking up where OO left off.

I now see that OO is still going. So I guess people were making a fuss about nothing when the Oracle / Sun thing happened.

Either way, Apple Pages lacks the Navigation feature found in OO/LO, and Word. And that is what I'd like to find a way to work around.

I had to drop word on this kind of document because its way of handling numbered lists within paragraph styles was driving me nuts, as it had done for the person I was assisting, and has done for many other people I see have posted issues about that as far back as 2003 or earlier. So I switched my friends document over to Pages, as that's installed by default on her MBP. But she really wanted the document map functionality that was in Word. OO/LO was my next option, and the one I am running with for now.

James Wilson7 wrote:
Jonathan, I may not understand your problem but, going back to the document navigation problem you first raised, I find that it is very easy to use the outliner. If you are careful about assigning headers as you write, clicking the outline icon is a quick way to navigate a doc. If you need to burrow deeper than headers, there is always 'find'.

Hi James,
Thanks for this. I had looked at the Outline function. I have now taken another look and I see it is possible to collapse the levels to whatever level one chooses. This does make that more useful than I thought.

Whilst helpful, in my experience it is still not nearly as useful as a document navigator / map. It is, however, the best alternative I've now seen on Pages.

Following along with James' suggestion, is there any way to have Pages display the outline without the formatting of the various headers? Some of the headings a large, and the outlines displays in a rather hard to read way when these headings are all placed one after the other. It also means that the high level outline takes up far more pages than would otherwise be necessary.

Any suggestions?