One of the features of Word is the Table of Contents. This feature allows you to create a table of contents automatically if you know what type of headings to use. The great thing is that even if you have a Word document with a lot of content, it’s very easy to edit it so that you can generate the table of contents automatically.

Setting up your Word document with the correct headings and table of contents In order to set up your Word document with the correct headings and table of contents, you first need to create a new document. To do this, click on the New button in the top left corner of your screen. In the resulting window, enter a name for your document and click on OK. Once you have created your new document, you will need to set up its headings. To do this, click on the Headings tab in the top left corner of your screen and then select one or more of the following: Title: The process of setting up your Word document with correct headings and table of contents Heading 1: Introduction Heading 2: How to create a table of contents
Heading 3: Customizing table of contents

Setup and View Headers in Word

To setup your headers, go to the “Header” tab in your table of contents editor. Here, you can choose which headers are allowed and set their sizes. You can also add custom headings by entering them in the “Custom Headers” field. ..

The main Home tab in the ribbon has three styles: Styles, which are the default; H4 (Heading 4), H5 (Heading 5), and H6 (Heading 6). The three styles are as follows: Styles: Default

When creating your document’s table of contents, feel free to use any of the following headings: H1, H2, H3, TOC. Just make sure to insert a custom TOC and change a few settings, which I will also mention. ..

To apply a heading to a paragraph of text, just click on the line with the text and then click on the heading style you want to apply. ..

  1. Introduction
  2. Thesis
  3. Research and Data Collection
  4. Thesis Outline
  5. Dissertation Outline
  6. Research Methodology
  7. Data Analysis and Interpretation
  8. Conclusion

When you use this feature, a pane will appear on the left hand side of the document and you’ll be able to see the various headings, sub-headings, etc.

To create a table of contents (TOC), simply click on any of the items in the list. This will take you to that heading in the Word document, which will be your TOC. ..

Adding a Table of Contents in Word

Next, we’ll add the TOC to our document. To do this, we’ll open up the table of contents in Word and click on the first header. Then, we’ll click on the second header and so on until we reach the end of our document.

To create a table of contents for your document, go to the top of your current first page and then click on Insert and Blank Page. Now click on References, Table of Contents and pick from one of the Automatic choices at the top. ..

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. How to use the manual table
  3. The benefits of using a manual table
  4. The drawbacks of using a manual table

To insert a TOC in your document:

  1. Open the document you want to TOC and click on the tab at the top of the screen.
  2. Click on the plus sign (+) to add a new TOC.
  3. Type your name and email address into the TOC fields and click on the Add button.
  4. Click on OK to add your TOC.

In order to update the TOC, just click inside of it and then click on Update Table at the top.

Which option would you like to choose? ..

Customize Table of Contents

If you used headings other than H1, H2, and H3, you’ll notice they won’t appear in the TOC. In order to use these extra headings, you have to choose Custom Table of Contents when inserting the TOC.

To change the options for the table of contents (TOC), open the dialog by clicking on the “Options” button located in the toolbar at the top of your document. There are several settings you can adjust, including whether to show page numbers and whether to right-align them. You can also choose between multiple styles, and you can display more levels beyond three, which is the H3 heading. ..

If you click on the Options button, you can choose extra items to include in the table of contents. If you scroll down, you’ll be able to select the subtitle and table of contents heading. ..

To customize the look and feel of the table of contents, you must click on the Modify button. If you right-click on the TOC and choose Font or Paragraph, it will not format the TOC. When you click on Modify, you will get another dialog where you can edit each TOC level. TOC 1 is H1, TOC 2 is H2, etc. ..

To change the formatting for a particular heading, click on the Modify button and select Formatting from the list. You can then choose between Bold, Italic, Underline, and Font Size. ..

If you click on the Format button at the bottom, you can customize your document’s appearance even more. Here’s my table of contents with H1 as bold and with a bigger font size. ..

If you press the CTRL key and then click on anything in the TOC, you’ll be brought to that page. However, if you find it annoying to have to press the CTRL key, you can change this by going to File – Options and then clicking on Advanced.

In order to follow hyperlinks in the table of contents in Word, you must uncheck the Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink box. Now, you can just click on the items in the TOC as links without holding down the CTRL key. Unfortunately, this only works on your local copy of Word. When you email it to someone and if they don’t have that setting changed, they will have to CTRL + click. That’s about it when it comes to following hyperlinks in Word. Enjoy!