Table of Contents formatting on iPad Pages

I've had this as a consistent issue on iPad Pages.

When forming a table of contents, the page number appears on the line below. The number of indents for the page number (and any leading characters like ............) can only be set on Pages for Mac.

Is there a workaround that people have found?

iPad Pro, iPadOS 18

Posted on Oct 22, 2024 12:24 AM

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mjohnstn Author

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Oct 29, 2024 01:28 AM in response to mjohnstn

Truly surprised that Table of Contents on iPad/iOS is actually broken and has been for years and no-one seems to be bothered by it.

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