You use the Select Styles editor to choose the paragraph styles that your Table of Contents view looks for when it collects its entries. Usually, you want table-of-contents entries to be short headings, so if your document has such headings, and you have applied the same paragraph style to each of those headings, you can select that heading style for inclusion in the Table of Contents view. Tables of contents in Pages are style-based: that is, a Table of Contents view lists those paragraphs in your document that have specific paragraph styles applied to them.
This new view provides other benefits as well. As one would hope, populating a Table of Contents view is almost effortless. Appearing in a sidebar (on the Mac) or in a popover (in iOS and in the iCloud app), the Table of Contents view automatically updates itself as you work on the document and provides a quick way to move around the document-just click or tap an entry in the Table of Contents view to jump to it. The new Table of Contents view in the latest versions of Pages provides that navigational help.
However, the other versions of Pages could not make them, and the tables of contents that Pages for the Mac inserted into documents, while undeniably helpful for the eventual readers of those documents, were not particularly useful navigation tools for their writers. Pages for the Mac has long been able to insert a table of contents into a document as part of its body text. Long-time Pages users who merely skimmed those pages can be forgiven for saying, “Wait a minute-I thought Pages could already make tables of contents!”
When Apple updated its iWork apps earlier this year (see “ iWork Update Brings iOS Apps Closer to Parity”, 2 April 2019), the “What’s New” pages for Pages 8.0 for the Mac, Pages 5.0 for iOS, and the Pages iCloud app all listed a “Table of Contents view” as the top new feature. #1619: Stage Manager first impressions, Live Text in Preview redux, SMS 2FA failure fix, moving large folders with ChronoSync.
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#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives.To create a custom template with fonts and font sizes you prefer: Later, if you want to revert the templates to their original fonts, deselect the “Set font and size for new documents” checkbox. Note that your setting applies to new documents you create afteryou set the preference nothing changes in existing documents. Click the arrows next to Font Size to choose a font size, or type a value in the text field.Click the Font pop-up menu and choose a font.