For most of my document writing I use iWork Pages (from iWork '09), and it's usually fine for me. I don't miss Microsoft Word, except for one simple feature: the ability to number chapter titles and paragraph headers for easy reference in the contents of the document and for cross references.
Somehow, I cannot find this feature in Pages '09. It is possible to number headers by setting the style to numbered, but it doesn't mitigate well into the generated dynamic contents, and paragraphs don't follow the numbering of higher level elements it seems.
Does anyone know how to make this work?
Answer
I've always used the numbered style, it's a little quirky, especially when it comes to the table of contents, but it does ultimately work. What documents are you ultimately creating that don't obey the numbering rules?
To do a 2 tier numbering scheme:
- Set the "Heading 1" style to "Numbered List"; right click on Heading 1 to save the style.
- Set the "heading 2" style to "Numbered List"
- Open the inspector palette, choose "text inspector" and then the "list" tab.
- Change "numbers" to "tiered numbers"
- Select "continue from previous"
It is not perfect and requires more setup than I'd like, but I have successfully formatted 100+ page documents using this. The net result should be something like this:
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