Text Formatting ⇒ numbered section not in TOC

[thomas]

Hello,

how can I avoid that a numbered section gets listed in the TOC?

What I already know:
\section{example} leads to a numbered new section which gets listed in the TOC.
\section*{example} leads to a new section which is not listed in the TOC but also gets no number. But I need a number for the section because I want to refer to the section.

Thanks in advance.

[frabjous]

It may depend on your document class and settings, but something like this might work well enough for the standard classes, for example:

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\section*{\refstepcounter{section}\thesection\quad Section Title}

might work well enough.

[thomas]

If I do it like that, the section gets numbered but not listed in the TOC. This is fine. But as I said I want to refer to the section:

\section*{\refstepcounter{section}\thesection\quad Section Title}\label{Section Title}

But in this case \ref{Section Title} does not refer to the correct section (let´s say A.1 in the appendix) but just to the chapter (i.e. A). How can I manage that the ref command refers to the correct section?

[frabjous]

Sorry. You have two choices. Either put the label inside the section* command:

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\section*{\refstepcounter{section}\label{mylabel}\thesection\quad Section Title}

Or move the \refstepcounter command outside of it (right before it).

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\refstepcounter{section}\section*{\thesection\quad Section Title}\label{mylabel}

If you're using hyperref, you may need to put a \phantomsection command before everything too to get the links working right.

[thomas]

I adopted the first proposal and it works very well. Thank you very much.

I modified it a bit (probably very dowdy). With your proposal the number of the section looks like 1.1 but because all other section numbers in my text have the form 1.1. I simply wrote

\section*{\refstepcounter{section}\label{mylabel}\thesection.\quad Section Title}

[localghost]

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Thorsten