Editing Content in Table Of Contents

I've been able to create a nice looking TOC with Pages, and formatted it well.
However, there are a few widow lines. I need to push a few lines onto another page. So I'd like to be able to insert blank lines or page breaks into the TOC in order to make the different entries fit together well.
Is there any way to edit the actual *content* of the table of contents?

No. The TOC is a special data merge text and can only be styled, not edited.
What you could do is put a white textbox or shape at the bottom of the page, with wrap set, to push the text off the page and over to the next.
Peter

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Hello guys.
i used the automatic table 1 to create the table of contents.
but in this table level 1 and level 2 start with a space which isn't stable.
i mean something like this:
1-        Chapter 1 ... 1
1-1   Example...........1
1-2          Example. 1
1-2-1 example..........1
i couldn't edit the fields to show the table like this:
1-        chapter............. 1
1-1        Example...........1
1-2        Example. .........1
1-2-1       Example.........1
i wondering is there a way to create a table like this?
Thanks.

I have tested in my computer to insert a table of content, it works well.
Make sure you have added your title to the right level.(Ribbon>Reference>Table of contents)
Check if there's extra space between the chapter line.
We might also customize the table of contents by clicking Insert table of content.
Select the right option that best suits your requirements.
Tylor Wang
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Table of contents in Pages

I am writing my master thesis right now and the structure is as follows: two cover pages, acknowledgments, abstracts and then i would like to put a table of contents. previous pages are done with the appropriate style (heading 1) but when i insert the TOC, it's empty. Is there a way it can include the previous headings? I hope this is clear enough! Thank you very much!
Rumen

and 8 lines under you will read:
*Creating and Updating a Table of Contents*
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
To update the TOC after editing a document, click any entry in the table of contents, or click Update Now in the TOC pane of the Document inspector. If you don’t update the table of contents after changing a document, it updates automatically when you close the document.
You are hitting the result of the use of common resources for the Help and for the User Guide.
In the Help, the part which you reproduced is really page different of the referenced one.
It seems that the draft of the User Guide was made from the Help with a piece of code replacing the links between Help 'pages' by references to paper pages.
Sometimes the result is effectively funny but not sufficient for "a good laugh" .
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 2 juillet 2009 17:32:31)

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?
When I first started I made a title page and then pasted in my first story from a .TXT file. After cleaning up I went back to the front a couple of empty lines ahead of the story and typed in the story title. Unlarged the font size and centered it, then

You can't do that. This is what the Pages User Guide, downloadable from your Pages Help menu, says:
Creating and Updating a Table of Contents
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
You can do it manually though.

Table of contents not showing items before it

I have a document which has to follow a strict format. It must have pages in the following order:
Cover page
Title page
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
Various other stuff
I've set up a table of contents and it's working fine, except it isn't showing items that appear before it. All I want is for the Acknowledgements page (which is immediately before the TOC) to show up in the TOC, but I can't get it to work.
Is this just a limitation of Pages? Does the TOC only ever show items that appear after it?

pd,
Unfortunately for you, according to the Pages '09 User Guide, Chapter 3 Using Table Of Contents says the following:
Creating and Updating a Table of Contents
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
Sorry.

How to include in table of contents the list of figures and list of tables?

How to include in table of content the "Table of contents", "List of figures" and "List of tables"? All are generated with function Table of contents, but they will not appear in generated table of contents even if they have proper style of headings - Heading 1, as other chapter.
I get this in generated Table of contentes of my dissertaion thesis:
Table of contents
Preface
Table of contents <- missing
List of tables <- missing
List of figures <- missing
Introduction
Main
Conclusion
Is it ok, that generated lists are not included in table of contents?

You've just confused me.
My understanding of how this is set up is that either:
This is a book, and there is a master TOC that includes all book documents and a document-specific TOC in each component file, or
This is a single file and there is one master TOC that includes all sections and a section-specific TOC that includes only the individual section.
In the first case, I think you would want two TOC styles set up, one that includes the chapter heads (if I understood how you said this worked) for the for the master, and you would include all docs in the book when you generate it, and a second style for the individual chapters, with the subheadings you want to include.
In the second case, it would be similar, but instead of only one style to cover the section TOCS, I think you would need to create a unique set of pargraph styles for the headings in each section (they can all be the same format, based one section, just with unique names), and then make a TOC style for each section that includes only the styles from that section.
OK, wait a sec. I just reread what you said: "Another thing: when the numbers are "linked" and updating well, they display indide a little box. Not a text box, but a kind of little frame around the numbers. That frame makes it imposible to delete just one number: when the TOC says that Section 6.1 is in page 135, for example, you cannot delete just the 5, it deletes, not just the 3 numbers, but also the doted tab."
I think these are NOT normal TOCs created by using Layout > TOC (but you could replace them with ones that are, if you set up your styles properly and the text you want to include is appearing on the pages). Those little boxes you mention sound like cross-references, which should update automatically without any intervention at all. Unfortunately, cross-refs can be flakey, especially if they point to another document. I'd open the cross-refs panel and see if you need to recreate a bunch of links.

Is Acrobat Pro right for us. We have an Employee Handbook that needs editing. Some is current pdf, some from an older version. Want to get all into one handbook, have the table of contents automatically adjust and link to specific pages from the ToC.

Is Acrobat Pro right for us. We have an Employee Handbook that needs editing. Some is current pdf, some from an older version. Want to get all into one handbook, have the table of contents automatically adjust and link to specific pages from the ToC.

You can download the trial version (http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-downloads.html) to convert the PDF back to WORD if you do not have the original. The conversion may not be perfect, but it is typically better than starting from scratch. You may be lucky and get a good result. You might check the settings (in the save screen) to try retain format versus retain text flow. The format version can be a pain to edit since it creates a bunch of text boxes. The flow version may require you to reformat in WORD, but you likely would want to do that anyway.

How to manually edit a "Table of Contents"

How do I set a table of contents to display "..." or align in a "nicer way" - either through manual editing or some advanced automatic vodoo.
Right now my TOC looks like this:
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And that's not a good thing.

Here are some links to older TOC question that might answer yours. There are quite a few threads about TOC if you do a search in the forum.
_http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11283337_
_http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10904870_

Edit Table of Contents

I'm writing a novel using Pages 5
Using the Help notes I've attempted to create a Table of Contents doing the following:-
1. Insert page numbers in footer and justify to centre.
2. Allocate a page for TOC and click Insert TOC
3. Select Heading 2 for my chapter heading.
The TOC automatically generates itself.
For Example
Chapter One
3
Chapter Two
5
Could you please advise me how to edit to create
Chapter One..................................Page 3
Chapter Two..................................Page 5
etc
I select Table of Contents/Text in the Inspector, but what do I do next?

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.

Editable Table of Contents for PDF in Preview

I am creating my own PDF document and I want it to have the convienent Table of Contents feature in Preview. But how can I edit my PDF document so it will have such a feature?

I want to create said table. I am creating the PDF document, I want to be able to create the Table of Contents myself. Any idea how?

Preview: Edit or Add to PDF's Table of Contents

Hey everyone,
I have a PDF that was generated by an online service (in other words, I didn't create it) and I'd like to edit or add to the Table of Contents, which currently is blank (other than the filename). (The file is otherwise able to be annotated, and has existing active links in it pointing to URLs.)
How can I do add to the TOC? For instance, if there are 12 chapters in here, I want to create 12 lines in the TOC, so I can just click and jump to them. I see there is a workaround with Bookmarks but I'd prefer manipulating the TOC.
And if the only way is to start with a Word doc, let me know because I can start in that format.
Thanks,
J
P.S. Working with Preview 5.0.2. (504) and Snow Leopard 10.6.4.

You can use PDFOutliner for editing the TOC (costs $5 on the Mac App Store). PDFOutliner can also *automatically* build a TOC based on the PDF's heading styles, to get you started quickly with a long PDF.
Note - I am the developer of PDFOutliner.
Regards,
Jose

How can I edit the table of contents?

I'm unable to do anything to the table of content. I don't want numbers, 1.2 for Chapter 1, Section 2
Is there a way to cjange this or do I just eliminate chapters and sections.

If you choose none and your book isn't complying, you have other issues, such as maybe a corrupted book, or maybe a template that is locked for that attribute.
Try making another, fresh book and then see if it obeys page numbering as you need there.

Acrobat Pro 9.0 freezes when viewing/scrolling through the table of contents of a document

I am hoping someone can help me or has experienced the same problem I'm about to describe. I belong to the technical publications group of a fairly large company and I review a lot of PDF documents. I just installed Acrobat 9.0.0 (via CS4 Design Standard) and I've noticed on larger documents where there's a full page or several pages worth of Table of Contents, Acrobat 9.0.0 seems to freeze up when I begin scrolling through the TOC. For example, if I want to use the Text Edit tools or use a sticky note, when I press on an icon, Acrobat will freeze for a good 10 seconds, then will allow you to press the icon. It tends to freeze each time I want to make my next edit or even pressing the up/down arrow buttons to go to the next page. Once I get through the TOC pages, Acrobat seems to function normally--no freezes.
Has anyone experienced this? Would appreciate any kind of advice on how to fix--perhaps there's a patch or update?
I didn't experience any of this using Acrobat 8.0--I never had any real problems with Acrobat until 9.0.0.

Your issue may not be related to a difference between v8 and 9.
I have not had this problem on my computers, but a coworker had this issue. For many documents that others were able to open and scroll through without issue, his computer was freezing and unfreezing. IT determined his graphics capabilities were not able to keep up with the requirements of working with larger documents and gave his computer a RAM upgrade and a new graphics card. Particularly during scrolling, higher demands are made on the computer to graphically render and re-render page content. Documents giving him problems before became a non-issue.
A new graphics card is obviously a $$$ solution, but you might want to check to see if your RAM meets the minimum requirements and check to see if there are any program updates (Help > Check for Updates).
I have had an issue of pdfs freezing, but not specifically in the table of contents areas. If your document has pages with images that have an unusually high number of layers, it may affect the ability to work effectively in the document.

How to create the Table of Content (TOC) in WEB

Dear Sir
Please help me
How to create the Table of content (TOC) in Web Intelligence Report,
Thanks
Gnanasekarn.K
Edited by: Gnanasekaran Kandasamy on Nov 20, 2008 11:12 AM

Hi Gnanasekarn,
You can create TOC in webi using Open Document, You can create link on the TOC and you can connect that link to open new report .
With the help of open document you can open the specific portion of report.
So you can achive your requirement using URL reporting or Open Document.
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Chaitanya Deshpande

ID CS5: How to include additional text into a table of contents and how to hide text from it?

I have the following problem:
1. I'd like to include additional Information in my table of contents which I don't want to appear in the text I refer to.
Example: I do have a picture with a caption saying:
picture 1: Blablabla.
And I want to have the source of the picture as additional information in the table of contents:
picture 1........Blablabla (source: thisandthat)........23
Still I don't want this additional content to disappear, as soon as I update the table of contents!
How can I achieve that?
2. And how can I have this the other way round?
Let's say I want the source in the caption, but not in the table of contents.
So the caption says:
picture1: Blablabla (source: thisandthat)
but the table of content says:
picture 1........Blablabla.....................23
I was trying to achieve this by two different praograph styles in the caption. One which would be listed, and one which wouldn't be listed, but this of course resulted in always having two paragraphs in the caption, which I'd like to avoid:
picture1: Blablabla
(source: thisandthat)
Any solution to this?
Best Regards,
Rainer Schwachsinn

Sorry, missed the second part of the question. I think the only way to do that is to use invisible "dummy" text of some sort, and if you're going to do it for some entries, you might as will do it for all.
One of the easiest ways is to put the text you want inthe TOC into an anchored frame attached to the actual heading in the text (so it moves along with it). Use a unique paragraph style for this text, and include this style, not the one applied to the headings inthe text, to make the TOC. I usually use a character color of red to make it satnd oout so I don't forget it's there, and the position on the page isn't really critical. Select the anchored frame, open the Attributes panel and make it non-printing. You'll see it in editing mode, the TOC will pick it up (as will variables, if required) but it will disappear on output.

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