If you are a document writer, this article will be very useful for you. You will learn how to insert a table of contents into your document, modify and update it just in a few clicks. Also, I'll show you how to make your document look good using Word's built-in heading styles and the multilevel list option. I am sure that everyone who reads this article right now had to deal with a really long document in Microsoft Word at least once in their lives. ![]() It could be an academic paper or a lengthy report. Depending on the project, it might be dozens or even hundreds of pages long! When you have such a big document with chapters and subchapters it turns out to be very hard to navigate in the document searching for necessary information. Luckily, Word allows you to create a table of contents, making it easy to refer to the relevant sections of your document, and therefore it is a must-do task for document writers. You could create a table of contents manually, but it would be a real waste of time. Let Word do it automatically for you! The first time you do it with a new file, you have to give the document a name and tell Word where to store it. After that, you just press CTRL-s. It's a good idea to get in the habit of pressing. Word 2011 includes support for Microsoft SharePoint, SkyDrive, simultaneous document editing, the option to communicate with others while you edit documents together, and improves the control you. In this post I will show you how to create a table of contents in Word in an automatic way and also how to update it just in a few clicks. I'll use Word 2013, but you can use exactly the same method in Word 2010 or Word 2007. • • • • • • • Make your document look good Heading Styles The key to creating a quick and easy contents page is to use Word's built-in heading styles ( Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) for the titles (chapters) and subtitles (subchapters) of your document. Don't worry if you haven't used them yet, I will show you how it works with regular text. • Highlight the title or the text you want to be the title of your first main section • Go to the HOME tab in the Ribbon • Search for the Styles group • Choose Heading 1 from the group So now you have assigned the first main section of your document. Go on scrolling through the text and selecting the primary section titles. Apply the ' Heading 1' style to these titles. ![]() They will appear in your table of contents as the main section titles. Next, define the secondary sections within each primary chapter, and apply the ' Heading 2' style to the subtitles of these sections. If you want to place emphasis on some paragraphs within the secondary sections, then you can select the titles for them and apply the ' Heading 3' style to these titles. You can also take advantage of the ' Heading 4-9' styles for creating additional heading levels. Multilevel Listing I want my table of contents to be more presentable, so I am going to add a numbering scheme to the titles and subtitles of my document. • Highlight the first main title. • Find the Paragraph group on the HOME tab in the Ribbon • Click the Multilevel List button in the group • Select the style from the List Library options Here comes the number of my first main title! Go round for the other main titles, but now when the number appears next to the title, click the lightning box and choose 'Continue numbering'. It will make the numbers go up. As for the subtitles, highlight one, press the TAB button on your keyboard, and then choose the same Multilevel List option. It will design the subtitles of the secondary sections with the numbers like 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc. As in the screenshot below. You can also choose another option so that they look differently. Keep the ball rolling throughout the document for all of your sections.:-) Why should I use the heading styles? On the one hand, the heading styles greatly simplify my work and present my document in a structured fashion. On the other hand, when I insert a table of contents, Word automatically searches for those headings and displays a table of contents based on the text that I marked with each style. Later I can also use these headings to update my table of contents. Creating a basic table of contents Now I have my document well-prepared with the titles as Heading 1 and the subtitles as Heading 2. = Mac OS version available. Window media classic player 123 free download. = Windows version available. Version history available = Complete changelog on our site.
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