Table of contents problems

I am trying to convert a document from Word to Pages. I've run into a some table of contents problems that I know how to solve in Word, but which apparently cannot be solved at all in Pages.
1. I need to make several entries differ from the paragraph text. For example, I have a heading that reads "PROGRAM THEME: MUSIC IN AMERICA AND BEYOND." I need it to read simply "Theme."
2. The paragraph text is all caps. I need the TOC entries to be in title case.
I can do these things easily in Word. But I really dislike Word and would like to use Pages. Is there any way to do these simple things?

I can't help with the TOC as I've not had a need to use one since I've been using Pages. I can help with the title case. Go to my iDisk & download Pages Title Caps.scpt. To add the AppleScript menu in OS X 10.4.x or 10.5.x, go to Applications > AppleScript and launch the AppleScript Utility application. The option to "Show Script Menu in menu bar" is activated from there. You can put the downloaded script in the Scripts folder in either the main HD > Library or in your user Library.

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Table of contents problem?

Hi there
I have a document that two layouts, one is for the iPad. To create the new one, I chose to copy the styles and link the stories from the original. I want to publish the iPad layout, but am having problems understanding the Table of Contents.
The original document had a TOC set up, with PDF bookmarks. When I create the new alternative layout, the TOC page in the new layout, which has the linked content from the original layout, works fine. But as the content is altering slightly, I need to create a new TOC, pointing to the styles used on the alternate layout.
The trouble is that when I publish the new guide, the TOC does not work at all. It goes to the last page of the document.
Does anyone know why this approach would not work? Is it something to do with the PDF bookmarking, i.e. go to layout 2, page 4 for instance, but when published it thinks it's going to (page count of first layout + another 4 pages)?? Confusing, but I don't know why this doesn't work?
Can anyone suggest a fix for this?
(I don't want to separate the documents, as it's far too much work for the end result and I could do with publishing these without significant changes for now... just want to get the TOC working... without doing it manually)
Thanks!

What works for PDF doesn't necessarily work for DPS. In DPS, when you create a link to another article, you use the navto:// command, which you can read about here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/help/hyperlink-overlays.html
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Table of contents problem - order incorrect

Hi
I have a document that contains about 50 tables, often with several on a page. I have created a TOC list for these tables which works correctly throughout most of the document. However on a few of the pages the order of the generated TOC is incorrect (ie the entry for table 10 will appear before the entry for table 9) despite table 9 being before table 10 on the actual page. Incase the x position of the tables on the page has an influence I have set all the tables to have the same value.
If anybody has any ideas why this is happening I would be grateful to hear them.
Cheers
Brian

Have you found a solution to this?
If its appearing like my example below i have a possible solution...
A1. Title
A2. Title
A. Section Heading
A3. Title
A4. Title
I had that problem and found it was due to the position of the items on each page...
On a page with 2 colums A1 & A2 were in the left column, A3 & A4 in the right column... BUT my section heading was RIGHT aligned... not left... so the TOC uses the alignment of the headings for the order of items... so it saw A1 on the left up the top, A2 underneath, THEN my section heading top right, then A3 and A4 below it... make sense?
Basically if your heading or toc item isn't further left and above the next TOC on the page your refering to... it wont pick up the order correctly!
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Reading Table of Contents

When I open my mail program, a dozen or more fairly recent emails also pop open and clog my desk top. Then, I get a spinning pinwheel and the message "Reading Table of Contents" at the top of my mail program. I have to force quit and sometimes this will go away if I restart, but not always. It's exceedingly annoying. Can anyone please give me advice on why these emails are opening and how to stop them from doing so, as well as how to get out of "reading table of contents" mode?
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L
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You're welcome.
First of all, if launching Mail while holding the Shift key down didn't prevent Mail from opening all those messages, and if that's still a problem, you can fix it re-creating the preferences file as follows:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate the com.apple.mail.plist file and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
You'll have to set up your non-Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don't. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You'll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it's enabled.
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Hi there, thanks for the reply.
The only way I could move the inline box to the left was to make a custom anchor and change the X value, this did not affect the TOC unfortunately. I also checked the location of the invisible marker indicating the location of the inline text box, and it is definitely before the heading that follows. I confirmed this by removing the span columns option for that paragraph, and the TOC displayed properly after doing that, meaning there is likely some problem with the span columns option not properly recognizing the order of content.
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Problem with automatic table of contents in latest Pages 5.1

So here's the deal. I'm using "Bottom text" to automaticly put page numbers on each new page, But I don't want page number on the cover (page 1) or on the introduction page (p2), so I write something else in the bottom text there, and them simply click "start new bottom text here" on page nr 3 (the page where I have the table of contents). This way I get page numbers on all future pages but no on the two previous ones, but the problem then is that the headlines from earlier (the introduction) is left out from automatic table of contents. I tried experimenting, and if i chose "start new bottom text" on page 4 (the one after table of contents) all headlines from there on out disappears from table of contents. How do I fix this? The thesis I'm writing is going to be very long, and I really don't wanna have to do table of contents manually. I also can't have page numbers on the introduction page as this is a major exam thesis and it needs to look very professional and excellent, because my whole grade is depending on it.

An interesting bug, if that is what it is.
It could be you have simply chosen a Section T.O.C. which only does a T.O.C. for the section it is in.
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Peter

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There are some issues with 11.1.2.0 version with PDF output.Make sure that you have the latest patchset for FR.

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Please tell me how to fix it?

Courtesy of Google I can translate for you in hopes someone else will assist you, Nikita. There are many experienced Pages users here.
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this is the original version, which requires formatting, so it works, but if you filter out unneeded heading styles, the result will be:
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                    Heading 1 Page 4 - when you send to the page 2
                    Heading 1 Page 9 - when you send a page 3
Please tell me how to fix it?

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(This might also have been mentioned in your other thread:)
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