Navigating a Pages document

In Pages, is it possible to get a navigation outline to appear in the left sidebar - such as the document’s Table of Contents with all its chapter headings and subheadings (all as clickable links)?
I sometimes work on large documents with many pages and this facility would make navigating my way around the document a cinch as I would be able to locate another part of the document with ease .
This is a very helpful feature of programmes such as MS Word, LibreOffice and OpenOffice. I know one can view page thumbnails in the sidebar, but in very large documents this does not make for easy navigation. Section headings would be very much better.
I use Pages 4.3 as Pages 5 is useless to me, with so many of the features I depend on removed. I am using OS X 10.9.3
Here’s hoping!

Hi Peter. Thank you for the reply.
I do have a Table of Contents - in fact, that's what I am using to navigate the document (it is 700+ pages long) at the moment. The TOC is on the first page, so I go up there, find the heading of the section I want, and as all the page numbers are links, I click on the page number and it takes me there. But this is cumbersome. It would be so much easier and 100 times more efficient just to have the sidebar showing all my section headings (based on the the paragraph styles (Heading 1, 2, 3...)), as MS Word has.
I can't use Outline View because of the problem of the cursor disappearing in the last few lines of each page - a problem with any document over about 120 pages long that I have seen reported by others elsewhere in these support communities discussions. You can't position the cursor anywhere in the bottom few lines. You have to select a line above until the cursor appears and then move it downwards with the arrow keys.
Bookmarks are not the ideal solution either - it's easier and quicker just to use the TOC as I'm doing at the moment.
I have made my suggestion to Apple on Pages feedback, but would they make this enhancement for an older version of Pages? As I said, Pages 5 is useless to me.
By the way, another problem with Pages is you can't split the window and see two different parts of the document at once (or am I missing something?)

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