S0020O- 7D. Table Of Contents
A Table of Contents (TOC) is a generated list that displays all the major headings within a document, along with their corresponding page numbers, essentially acting as a navigation tool to quickly jump to different sections of the document. It is created by applying heading styles (e.g., Heading1, Heading 2, etc.) to your document titles.
Table Of Contents ExampleTo create a TOC:
- Place the cursor where the Table of Contents should appear.
- Click Table of Contents in the Table of Contents group of the References tab of the Ribbon.
- Choose an automatic style and the TOC drops in using the Heading styles by default.
- To create a custom TOC, click Custom Table of Contents. The Table of Contents dialog box opens up. Click Options to select which styles to use in building your TOC. Use a number in the TOC level option. No number means to ignore that Style in the TOC. The number determines the TOC level. A 1 is the most outdented level. A 2 is the first indent level. A 3 is the next level indent, etc. Click OK to close the dialog box.
If you make changes to your document that affect the table of contents, update the table of contents by clicking the table of contents and clicking Update Field on the TOC tab that appears at the top of the TOC. You can also click on the TOC and press the F9 key on the keyboard.
Table Of Contents Update OptionWhen you use the TOC update option, you will get the Update Table of Contents dialog box. Select which update option you want to use and click OK.
Update Table of Contents dialog box
Exercise 1
Video Demo 1 – How to create a Table of Contents.
EXERCISE 1 DIRECTIONS
Open Exercise 7D if you have not yet done so. Go to page 1 and click on To Our Stockholders. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, notice the style is Heading 1. Click on Milestones. The style is Heading 2. By default, these will be used in the TOC. Heading 1 as a main topic and Heading 2 as a subtopic.
Go to the blank page after the title page. Place the cursor where the Table of Contents should appear. Click Table of Contents in the Table of Contents group of the References tab of the Ribbon. Select the second automatic style. The TOC drops in using the Heading styles by default.
To update the TOC, click the table of contents and click Update Field on the TOC tab that appears at the top of the TOC. When t the Update Table of Contents dialog box comes up, select Update entire table and click OK.