EPub TOC problem.

I use Pages to create ePub books. The new Pages update adds a crudely-formatted, auto-numbered TOC at the beginning. I'm not a programmer and don't know the best way to edit it out of there. Any ideas?

Well, a co-worked happened upon the answer to this!
I was aware of the "don't use nested stylesheets rule", which I thought was here:
But it turns out, that ALSO means NOT to organize style sheets here:
Once I took the eHeader style sheet out of the folder, the TOC generated as expected!

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How does the title look like in InDesign document? Is it Chapter-One or Chapter One? Also let us know the version of InDesign you are using.
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Thanks amygfx. Seems like a logical idea. I tried adding in a TOC, even left it in when I made the ePUB, but it didn't make any difference I'm afraid.
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When exporting from Pages to ePub, I'm having two issues:
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Thank you for sharing such an informative post! I'd like to offer one small correction.
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Can't find an ePub forum, so I'll try here.
I created a small epub file that worked fine on ipad (automatic TOC was there, video works, pictures show up, etc.)
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Check out the InDesigner blog for some useful video podcasts regarding InDesign. Michael Murphy has a section on Long Documents that may help.
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