Remove the page number(s) of one section (and its subsections) from ToC of article document

page-numberingtable of contents

I want to remove page numbers of the last section and its subsections from an article document's table of contents. I have gone through several questions and answers about this topic and ended up breaking my document. Luckily I had a previous version of my thesis saved in the morning. At the moment I have

Section ............ 1
  subsection ....... 2
Section ............ 4
  subsection ....... 6
Section ............ 8
  subsection ....... 9

in my table of contents and I want

Section ............ 1
  subsection ....... 2
Section ............ 4
  subsection ....... 6
Section 
  subsection

instead. All the help appreciated.

Best Answer

Use the tocloft package for controlling the ToC (and LoF and LoT).

% sectocprob.tex  SE 623057

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tocloft}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{First section}
\subsection{A subsection}
\section{Second section}
\subsection{B subsection}
%% add into the ToC
\addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{sec}} % no section page numbers 
\addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{subsec}} % no subsection page numbers
\section{Third section}
\subsection{C subsection}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Show/hide the sections, subsections and subsections that I want from the navigation sidebar (beamer, Berkeley)

Use the optional argument of the sectioning commands and leave it empty to not include the unit in the sidebar; the unit will, however, be included in the ToC; an example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Berkeley}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{Test Section One}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}
\subsection[]{Test Subsection One One}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}
\subsection{Test Subsection One Two}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}

\section[]{Test Section Two}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}

\section{Test Section Three}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}
\subsection[]{Test Subsection Three One}
\begin{frame}test\end{frame}

\end{document}

The ToC:

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and one of the frames with hidden units in the sidebar:

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[Tex/LaTex] Section Numbering in Table of Contents but NOT in Document

REVISED

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\Decide[1]{#1}
\makeatletter
\def\sectionsuffix      {}
\def\subsectionsuffix   {\quad}
\def\subsubsectionsuffix{\quad}
\def\paragraphsuffix    {\quad}
\renewcommand\@seccntformat[1]{\csname the#1\endcsname\csname#1suffix\endcsname}
\renewcommand\thesection{\protect\Decide{\@arabic\c@section}}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{\@arabic\c@section.\@arabic\c@subsection}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\renewcommand\Decide[1]{}

\section{Section One}
blah 
\subsection{Subsection One}
blah blah
\section{Section Two}
blah blah blah
\end{document}

ORIGINAL APPROACH

I don't recommend it, because it is very confusing.

The macro \@seccntformat sets the appearance of the section numbering. So here, after the \tableofcontents, I nullify the macro, so that no formatting is done on the section numbering.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@seccntformat[1]{}
\makeatother
\section{Section One}
blah 
\subsection{Subsection One}
blah blah
\section{Section Two}
blah blah blah
\end{document}

Best Answer

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[Tex/LaTex] Show/hide the sections, subsections and subsections that I want from the navigation sidebar (beamer, Berkeley)

[Tex/LaTex] Section Numbering in Table of Contents but NOT in Document

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