Table of Tables (multiple TOC)

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Table of Tables (multiple TOC)

Hi there,

I'm a 1L law student, working on outlining my cases for finals and... first of all... I love Pages. The Harvard list style is a thousand times better than Word's. But I'm preaching to the choir in this forum, I suspect.

My question is about tables (not graphic tables; style-based TOC tables). I have a table of contents going along fine, but I'd like to add a table of cases, and a table of statutes, which I have defined as a certain style throughout my document. In essence, I want to create a separate table of contents, based on certain styles, but Pages only seems to let me create one table of contents.

I hate to say it, but Word allows you to insert Tables of whatever style you opt-in to. Seems simple enough... Is there a way to do this that I'm overlooking? I tried re-inserting another TOC, and selecting the style I wanted, but that seems to affect the other TOC as well!

Does anyone know of a way to create a separate table from a specific style?

Many thanks,
Aidan Skoyles
George Washington Law School.

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Oct 1, 2006 8:11 AM

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Answer 1

FrankBe

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Oct 2, 2006 2:04 AM in response to exquemelin

Hello exquemelin,

welcome to the Pages Discussions. You can create only one TOC in Pages documents with the content you activate with the "TOC" tab panel inside of the "Document" inspector.

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Bekins

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Oct 2, 2006 8:56 AM in response to FrankBe

Actually, you can have more than one TOC, but they will only list contents up to the next TOC in the document. Thus

TOC1
A
B
C
TOC2
D
E
TOC3

TOC1 would contain A, B, & C. TOC2 would contain D & E, and TOC3 would be empty.
I'm not quite sure what the original poster wanted, but D & E could have a different paragraph style from A, B, & C, as long as it's checked in the TOC inspector.
Note that style names may appear disabled in the TOC inspector - this indicates that they're not in use in the body, not that they're not available. They can still be checked.

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FrankBe

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Oct 2, 2006 10:26 AM in response to Bekins

Hello Belkin,

what exquemelin wanted to achieve is one TOC with the chapters and sections in it, another TOC with cases in it and a third TOC with statutes in it. This are three different TOCs with different contents (like a TOC for figures and a TOC for charts, etc.).

Unfortunately you can only have one uninterrupted TOC in Pages. You can have a TOC with different content and with different styles/layout for the content, but only sorted from page one to the last page in one order.

I think it is not a good structure (and not a good overview) to have a mixed TOC with chapters, tables, charts and figures in it.

If I am on a wrong way, please discribe your way a bit more detailed for me, so I am able to understand it, because I'm not a native English speaker.

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Answer 4

Bekins

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Oct 2, 2006 10:36 AM in response to FrankBe

I think I agree with you - I was just pointing out what Pages was capable of with respect to multiple TOC's.

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exquemelin Author

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Oct 3, 2006 8:11 AM in response to FrankBe

Hi FrankBe,

Yes, you understand correctly. I want to pull out a completely separate TOC for cases and a third for statutes, which are tagged as a certain style.

So I guess there's no way to achieve what I want.

Shucks.

Thanks for your help anyway.

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