Formatting chapter titles in table of contents

I am finishing up my dissertation and am having trouble with the TOC. My chapter titles are usually a couple of lines long: e.g.
Chapter 1
Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah
It looks nicer on separate lines like this. But when I insert a TOC, it's like this:
Chapter 1 11
Blah Blah Blah 11
Blah Blah Blah Blah 11
In other words, Pages seems to think these are separate headings even though it's one chapter title. Is there a way to get around this problem? I tried reducing the margins, but you can only do it for all of the chapter lines, and what I want is "Chapter X" on one line and the rest of the text on the next line and possibly following lines. How can I adjust the appearance of the TOC? Thanks.

WC,
Try breaking the lines with CTRL-Return rather than with a regular Return.
Jerry

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