How do I add links to table of contents in Pages

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How do I add links to table of contents in Pages

I'm create relatively long PDFs and I want to make the TOC have clickable links.

I know how to make the page numbers (in TOC) clickable, but how do I make the text clickable as well?

I've done this in the past with documents I've built in Word (and imported to Pages before turning them to PDFs), but how do I get the same result with a document I'm creating in Pages? Do I need to move it to Word?

I know I can link the text in the TOC to the right pages with Preview, but is there a way to do this without the manual labor?

Thanks :-)

Posted on Jan 6, 2013 4:30 AM

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fruhulda

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Jan 6, 2013 5:23 AM in response to visand

What kind of clickable links? To my knowledge the whole line gets clickable in the TOC when exporting the document to PDF.

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visand Author

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Jan 6, 2013 5:26 AM in response to fruhulda

Hi, you're right. I tried it again and it worked. Don't know what I screwed up the first time...

Thank you :-)

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fruhulda

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Jan 6, 2013 5:31 AM in response to visand

You are welcome!🙂

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Dec 9, 2013 10:11 AM in response to visand

It would be most helpful though to have this ability directly in the working file. Once the documents starts growing the need to flip around so often becomes and admin task in its' own right. I thought the smart folks at Apple would have given us at least an Option-click on the TOC to let us quickly go to the section in question.

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Mar 30, 2015 3:25 AM in response to fruhulda

According to what I just tried, the TOC links an not clickable in an exported PDF (Page version 5.5.2)

Could anybody help me on that?

Thank you,

Jonas

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Mar 30, 2015 6:07 AM in response to Jonas Lismont

Because the original post is referring to Pages '09 v4(.3), and not Pages v5 which does not support bookmark document links in the TOC, or anywhere else.

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Mar 30, 2015 6:16 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you VikingOSX. This is in fact what I expected. Any chance to find a workaround?

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Mar 30, 2015 6:24 AM in response to Jonas Lismont

No workaround with any release of Pages v5. Functionality is in Pages '09 v4.3 — the predecessor, but not benefactor of Pages v5. This is just one of 100+ features that Apple omitted when they wrote Pages v5 from scratch.

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Mar 30, 2015 6:29 AM in response to VikingOSX

Ok. Do you think it is reasonable to think that this feature will be added back in the future?

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