Excluding items in a TOC

Question

Hello. I am trying to exclude certain things from a my TOC and I cant get it to work. I wanted to exclude a heading that starts with "Not this" so I added the following in the "Exclude Headings" box on the TOC editor dialog .\Not*\.

This does nothing. I cant find any examples of using this method to exclude headings. Any examples would be greatly appriciated.

Steffen Heller · Answer

Not* does not work.

The correct expression would be:

* Not.*
* Not this.*
* Not th.*
* or anything similiar and in between

In other words:

Don't forget to add a "." which makes sure that the beginning of your expression (here: "Not this") can be followed by basically anything.

For more explanation also check:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/TOC-Macro-Exclude-two-headings-with-different-names/qaq-p/95702

skip.hanson · Answer

Thanks Alexey. I tried Not*. No change. I put the dots in because I dont understand what the format is suppose to be. The example in confluence is not very helpful.

Alexey_Rjeutski__Polontech_ · Answer

Please try to add

"Not*"

without quotes, what for do you need dots?