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How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word ?
Dear Sir,
== The easiest way to create a table of contents is to use the built-in heading styles (heading style: Formatting applied to a heading. Microsoft Word has nine different built-in styles: Heading1 through Heading9), which you can apply to the text that you want to include in the table of contents. Microsoft Office Word searches for those headings and then inserts the table of contents into your document.
=A= You have to mark entries by using built-in heading styles
1. Select the text that you want to appear in the table of contents.
2. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the style that you want.
3. For example, if you selected text that you want to style as a main heading, click the style called Heading1 in the Quick Style gallery.
4. Notes :
- If you don't see the style that you want, click the arrow to expand the Quick Style gallery.
- If the style that you want does not appear in the Quick Style gallery, press CTRL+SHIFT+S to open the Apply Styles task pane. Under Style Name, click the style that you want.
=B= Then, you have to build the table of contents from the gallery
1- After you mark the entries for your table of contents, you are ready to build it.
2- Click where you want to insert the table of contents, usually at the beginning of a document.
3- On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then click the table of contents style that you want.
4- Microsoft Office Word2007 provides a gallery of automatic table of contents styles. Mark the table of contents entries, and then click the table of contents style that you want from the gallery of options.
5- Note If you want to specify more options — for example, how many heading levels to show — click Insert Table of Contents to open the Table of Contents dialog box.
=C= Next, You may create a custom table of Contents – based on the custom styles that you have applied by using the Table of Contents dialog box, or you can assign the table of contents levels to individual text entries.
1. On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents.
2. In the Table of Contents dialog box, do any of the following:
- To change how many heading levels are displayed in the table of contents, enter the number that you want in the box next to Show levels, under General.
- To change the overall look of your table of contents, click a different format in the Formats list. You can see what your choice looks like in the Print Preview and Web Preview areas.
- To change the type of line that appears between the entry text and the page number, click an option in the Tab leader list.
- To change the way heading levels are displayed in the table of contents, click Modify. In the Style dialog box, click the level that you want to change, and then click Modify. In the Modify Style dialog box, you can change the font, the size, and the amount of indentation.
3. To use custom styles in the table of contents, click Options, and then do the following:
- Under Available styles, find the style that you applied to the headings in your document.
- Under TOC level, next to the style name, type a number from1 to9 to indicate the level that you want the heading style to represent.
- Note If you want to use only custom styles, delete the TOC level numbers for the built-in styles, such as Heading1.
4. Repeat step1 and step2 for each heading style that you want to include in the table of contents, and Click OK.
5. Choose a table of contents to fit the document type:
n Printed document – If you are creating a document that reader will read on a printed page, create a table of contents in which each entry lists both the heading and the page number where the heading appears. Readers can turn to the page that they want.
n Online document – For a document that readers will read online in Word, you can format the entries in the table of contents as hyperlinks, so that readers can go to a heading by clicking its entry in the table of contents.
=D= Finally, you can update the table of contents or delete it:
i) - If you added or removed headings or other table of contents entries in your document, you can quickly update the table of contents.
ii) - On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Update Table.
iii) - Click Update page numbers only or Update entire table.
iv)- to delete it, On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then Click Remove Table of Contents.
It is better to know that: in MS Office Word2010 Starter, Table of contents (TOC) is partially supported and it loses items labeled with a SEQ field.
Good LUCK,
Lubna
IT IS EASY MY FRIEND...
1.OPEN MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD
2.TYPE ALL CONTENT
3. MAKE ALL IMPORTANT TOPIC AS MAIN HEADING AND SUB HEADING ON WHICH INDEX WILL CREATE..
4. CLICK REFERENCE TAB CLICK TABLE OF CONTENT
5.CLICK UPDATE TABLE.
