Updating TOC in iBooks Author

Change a chapter title does not update the TOC page.
Any way to edit that title from the TOC?
thanks

I just started using iBooks Author and ran into trouble when adding a hyperlinked page of chapters as a "Section", not knowing what other way to add it since I didn't want it labeled as a chapter. In the process, the TOC stopped showing anything more than the Section I added, with the visual page view and dotted slider thing only showed one blank page and nothing else. After driving myself crazy for a while and finding nothing useful in comments to similar problems here, I started hunting around at the bottom of the TOC window where those little blue arrows are. They didn't have any effect, but when I clicked on the little percent window next to them, I came up with a pop up menu saying different things including fit page or something like that. When I checked that choice, lo and behold, my slider thingy worked again and showed all my chapters again. Still wish they would provide an automatically hyperlinked Table Of Contents page like normal books have so you don't have to scroll through a bunch of pictures of pages to find what you are looking for, but it isn't too hard to make one bookmarking the text at the beginning of each chapter and hyper linking your chapter list to it. Still a new user, but at least I got the thing working again. Don't know if this will help others at all since there seem to be a variety of problems with figuring out how to use the TOC. I guess I'll have to buy a book on how to use the thing. Who ever invented help menus forgot that you actually have to explain how to do things to be of any help. Mostly it isn't at all obvious.
DJ

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you still have the original library on our old Mac? If so, connect the two Macs together so you can manually copy the iPhoto Library folder from the old Mac into the Pictures folder of the new iMac. download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, putting your administrator login name in the owner section and Staff in the group section. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.
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