I cannot add a Table of Contents

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When I go to Insert > Table of Contents, all the options are greyed out.

What am I doing wrong?

MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 3:59 AM

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Answer 1

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Hi PeterBreis0807,

I have solved it. The problem seemed to be because the document was on collaboration and connected to iCloud Drive.

I removed the collaboration and could then do it. After, I connected it again everything was ok.

Thanks

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Answer 2

Have you clicked in the front of the main text body (between the margins) of a Word Processing document?

You can not have a ToC in a Layout document or in a Textbox or Shape.

Do you have text that has Paragraph Styles (to identify what will be added to the ToC) applied to it?

What version of Pages are you using? :

Menu > Pages > About Pages

Peter

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Answer 3

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Hi PeterBreis0807,

Yes, I have clicked in the main text body and have text set as Header, Header2 and Body2 in the whole document.

Also, the version is the last one, 6.3.1.

Thanks

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Answer 4

You did not confirm whether the text was in the main text body and not in objects.

Is it just this one document?

Have you tested making a ToC in a fresh document?

Have tested

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Answer 5

Interesting! We'll have to add this to the list of gotchas!

Peter 🙂

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