Edit Table of Contents

You will need to export the T.O.C. to text and reimport it to edit the text.

Peter

Dear PeterBreis0807,

I have a similar problem.

I would like my TOC entry to read:-

Chapter X: Encounters With Aliens ……………………………….. 56

But as the Chapter, and Chapter Sub Title are different Styles it reads:-

Chapter X:

Encounters With Aliens

……………………………………..

56

Converting a One Page TOC, into a FOUR page dirge.

I can get the entry on one line by using only the Chapter OR The Sub Title and unchecking the Hash column, but it does not do what I want, nor does it look good.

Using soft returns converts the styles to one style.

Can you help, or am I asking for something unavailable?

Thanks in anticipation,

Petra.

{Mountain Lion: Pages '09 Version 4.3}

Petra

Pages T.O.C. entries are automatically styled by each entry.

eg All Heading 3 entries have the same paragraph style (which can be different from how they appear in the document).

Once you have exported and reimported the text into Pages you can apply whatever manual styling you want or applly your own Paragraph and Character Styling.

Character Style can be different from the Paragraph Style. In you case make it simply italic.

Peter

Thanks Peter,

I'll try that, and I'll take note of any reply to Tal's second request, as I'm not sure about that nitty gritty either.

Petra.

Tallberg & Petraw

You are not a nuisance. I hesitate to go into excessive detail, because some see this as patonising.

Menu > File > Export > Text

This exports the entire document, so just open the exported text file in TextEdit or similar then copy and paste the T.O.C. bit as plain old text back into your Pages document, so you can style it like any normal text.

You will not have links back to the relevant pages however.

That can be fixed with Bookmarks in Pages '08/'09 but not in Pages 5.2. Which as usual can't chew gum, let alone walk, and for sure not both at the same time.

Peter

Not really.

Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback

Just goes nowhere in my experience. That was where we all posted our feedback, bugs and wishlists for Pages '09. …and it got us Pages 5!

Best in my opinion is to post in the App Store, because it is public, shares experiences with other users and gives a quick summation of where everyone else is feeling either the joy or the pain. It is also the hardest place for Apple to sweep the issues under the carpet and ignore them.

Peter

This solved my question.

Dear Peter,

Thanks, yet again, for your help.

I now have a table of contents worthy of the name.

As you pointed out the page numbers no longer link to the pages to which they refer, and I will have to learn how to bookmark to replace that functionality.

At the moment my research in that area is suggesting that I must go through Hyperlink and Bookmark, but it's early days in my investigation, that might change yet.

I agree with your assessment of the latest Pages, that is why I'm hanging on to Version 4.3 tightly. And I like your feedback idea of 'post in the App Store' I had a quick mental picture of me armed with scrolls reading

'Give us Back our Word Processor';

a bucket of paste;

and a long wide-head-brush, sneaking up to my local store.

I recon if I chose a busy School Holiday, I could get about five pasted over the glass doors before I got arrested.

Thanks again,

have some more points, {as soon as I find out how to give them to you!}

Petra.

In Pages '09 (Pages 5 can't do this):

Select the items listed in the TOC one by one > Menu > Insert > Bookmark > Give it a name if it doesn't automatically get one

Then in the TOC:

select the page number or the TOC paragraph referring to the page > Inspector > Link > check Enable hyperlink > Link to: Bookmark > Name > Choose

Peter

Dear Peter,

Thanks again, I'd have probably got there by Christmas, but you've saved me all that hassle.

I had sussed out that the Page number in the TOC had to know WHERE to go, I just didn't know how to tell it.

Thanks again,

How do I give you points?

Youve solved THREE Questions on this page for me.

Petra.

Not an issue.

The points are not that important except as reminder to self, how long I've been doing this. 😉

Peter

Your set-up seems reasonable.

You can finese the formatting using a right tab stop and just adjust it to suit your paper size and perhaps format the sub-levels of the T.O.C. to make it easier to scan the layout, but that is all up to you.

Peter