hide an entry from Toc in latex

Question

I would like to know how I can hide a section from the table of contents but without loosing the section number in the body of the document. For example, in this tex file I loose the number for hide, and all the sequences are damaged:

\documentclass{article}  \begin{document} \tableofcontents \section{uno} \section{dos} \section*{hide} \section{tres} \end{document} 

Answer 1

I think you are looking for

\section*{hide} \addtocounter{section}{1} 

or make it into a command:

\newcommand{\toclesssection}[1]{\section*{#1}\addtocounter{section}{1}} 

EDIT:

Okay, I think I understand what is wanted now (and it makes more sense then the answer I gave). Here is a command that you can use to suppress adding a section, subsection, etc. to the TOC. The idea is to temporarily disable \addcontentsline.

\newcommand{\nocontentsline}[3]{} \newcommand{\tocless}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup} ... \tocless\section{hide} \tocless\subsection{subhide} 

Answer 2

Just wanted to say thanks for Ivans great hint! (I was just googling for something similar for my customized (Sub)Appendix{} commands:

\newcommand{\nocontentsline}[3]{} \newcommand{\tocless}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup}  \newcommand{\Appendix}[1]{   \refstepcounter{section}   \section*{Appendix \thesection:\hspace*{1.5ex} #1}   \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix \thesection} } \newcommand{\SubAppendix}[1]{\tocless\subsection{#1}} 

Maybe this is useful for someone else, too...)