Numbering chapters

It seems impossible to auto-number chapters in Pages. I could do this easily in the previous version of Pages, but it seems that the online editing capabilities in the new version cleared out this basic functions. I can understand some features are ditched, but a basic one like this makes the Pages app worthless for any serious writer I think.
Is there anyone who knows a workaround? What I'd like to do is the following:
Kind regards,

Benjamin, tell us MacOs version and Pages version. and which previous version of Pages are you talking about. Pages version are very different so the information is important so one can try out how to do it.

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