How To Insert A Table Of Contents In A Microsoft Word Document?

What is a Table of Contents? It is a Table that usually includes the Titles or Descriptions of the First Level Headings or otherwise Chapters in our Document with their Page Numbering. Sometimes it includes Second Level Headings and Third Level Headings. A Table of Contents should be comfortable to be read, to be properly formatted and to be accurate.

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In the following image, I have opened a Document that contains different Chapters, such as the one below where it mentions Introduction. For us to Create a Table Of Contents, first we must select which text will be included in the Table Of Contents. That is why we must select the Text first, where in the following example is the Title of the Chapter.

Once the Text that we want to be included in the Table Of Contents is selected, we must Format it as a Heading. For us to do that, while the text is selected, from the Home tab of the Ribbon we locate the area named Styles. From the Styles area, we select the drop-down menu at the right we select a Heading for the text. In the example below, I have selected the Heading 2 Style.

We must do the same for all the rest of the Text or Chapters that we want to include in our Table of Contents. That is why we repeat the same steps, meaning from the Home tab of the Ribbon and from the area Styles we select the Heading 2 Style, as shown below.

Once we have Formatted them with a Heading Style, we select the References tab of the Ribbon and locate the area at the left named Table Of Contents as shown in the image below.

 We place our cursor at the End of the Document, and then we select the command Table Of Contents as shown. Once the drop-down menu appears, we can see all the available Table Of Contents that we can use. For example, there is Automatic Table 1, Automatic Table 2, Manual Table and etc. Each Table of Contents, has its own Formatting and Style. The choice is ours to make.

In the following image, I have selected the Table Of Contents, Automatic Table 2 and immediately it has been inserted in our Document. We can see the Chapters that we had formatted with the Style Heading 2 and at the right we can see in which page the Chapters are. We can just click or tap on one of the Chapters and we will be transferred to that Chapter.

Once the Table of Contents has been inserted in our Document, if we activate it by clicking on the Title of it, there are two commands available which are the following:

• Table Of Contents: We can easily change the Table of Contents into another predefined one, just by clicking on it.
• Update Table: Whatever changes were made in the Document and affects the Table Of Contents, by selecting the Update Table command all the changes will be updated in the Table Of Contents.

If we no longer need the Table Of Contents and it is not necessary anymore, we can easily Remove it. Again, from the References tab and from the area of the ribbon named Table Of Contents, we select the command Table Of Contents and from the drop-down menu that appears we select the command Remove Table Of Contents as shown in the image below.

As mentioned, a Table Of Contents allows readers to move directly to a specific section in our Document and it gives the readers an Overview of the Document’s contents and organization.

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