Cannot format Table of Contents

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Cannot format Table of Contents

Hi,

I'm preparing a long document of 100+ pages on Pages 5.5.3. I've got all my Headings in place and a nice Table of Contents at the beginning as I want on the final product. For the most part, I was able to select the headings and sub-headings on the Table of Contents and choose the fonts, indents, spacing, and leaders I wanted.

My problem is that there are certain headings I simply cannot select. I'm using Heading 1 for my chapters, and if I click on one of the first 5 chapters I'm able to edit the format of that heading on the ToC. However, even though I'm using the exact same heading for the rest of the chapters, anything above Chapter 6 did not get formatted, and I'm unable to click on the heading on the ToC to format it. In general, I'm having trouble selecting any heading on the ToC, I'm clicking all over the place until what I want actually gets selected, but this specific heading never gets selected. Anyone else seeing something like this? More importantly, anyone have a solution on how to select a heading on the Table of Contents?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 17, 2015 11:23 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 17, 2015 3:12 PM in response to f30_Vincent

You can not select text in a TOC, that is formed automatically by Pages from specific paragraph Styles in the main document body text, but if you click on the TOC you can change the formatting of the various levels of the TOC, fonts, sizes, colors, tabs on rulers etc.

The TOC will not reference anything in separate objects such as Textboxes, Tables, Shapes etc.

Peter

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Answer 2

f30_Vincent Author

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Jul 17, 2015 3:16 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

You misunderstand my problem. I'm pretty sure its a bug in the program...

You say when I "click on the TOC you can change the formatting of the various levels of the TOC". I did this, painfully, for some of my headings. Other portions of the TOC are simply not selectable. I'm clicking all over the place to see when it randomly selects to change the font and "etc." you mention, some text I can never select.

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Answer 3

Jul 17, 2015 4:57 PM in response to f30_Vincent

I simply stated how it works. I can not see what you are looking at.

If there is a bug it is only one of hundreds in Pages 5.5.3, so would not be surprised.

If you have it I suggest using Pages '09 instead, which has substantially less bugs and 100+ more features.

Peter

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Answer 4

Yellowbox

Level 7

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Jul 18, 2015 1:34 AM in response to f30_Vincent

Hi Vincent,

Is your document constructed something like this?

Chapter 1 (Heading 1)

Sub-heading 1 (Heading 2)

Text (Body or any Style not nominated to appear in TOC)

Sub-heading 2 (Heading 2)