Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Create the Table of Contents
2. Click where you want your Table of Contents to appear.
3. Choose Insert > Reference > Index and Tables. Click on the Table of Contents tab. Click OK.

Customize the Table of Contents

Once you have applied your Heading styles, choose View > Document Map. You can now see roughly what will be included in your Table of Contents.

Right-click in the Document Map to choose which levels of heading to view.
To change the font, font size, color etc used to create the Table of Contents itself,

1. Make sure that, in the Formats box, you have chosen "From Template".
2. Click Modify and modify the relevant TOC style. Word uses style TOC 1 for the top level of contents, TOC 2 for the next level etc.

By default, Word shows three levels in your Table of Contents. That is, it puts the text from Heading 1, Heading 2 and Heading 3 in the Table of Contents. If you want to show more or fewer levels, in the Table of Contents dialog, change the number in the Show levels box.

Navigate by Using the Table of Contents

When writing long documents in Microsoft Word, you'll find the table of contents is an indispensable tool. Along with being an updating index, it also creates links that you can use to navigate a document.

First, be sure that you've applied styles to all headings and subheadings in your document then insert a Table of Contents.

1. Click where you want to insert the TOC.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and click Index and Tables.
3. Click the Table of Contents tab.
4. Click Options and make sure a TOC level number appears next to every heading you want to include in your TOC.
5. Select any other TOC options you want.

To go to a specific section in your document, click the corresponding page number in the TOC while holding down the CTRL key. To return to the TOC, click the Go to TOC button on the Outlining toolbar.