A Table Of Contents

How to use and customize the table of contents.
A table of contents. Insert the table of contents. This is an especially helpful tool for long documents. To display fields with grey shading. To make a table of contents in word you ll need a document with sufficient text.
Select a built in table from the menu that appears and the table of contents will appear in your. An automatic table of contents has hyperlinks built in to navigate through the document quickly. You can write a table of contents manually on your computer or have a word processing tool create it for you. To use a hyperlink hover the mouse over the appropriate entry in the table and control click to follow the link.
To update your table of contents select it click update table on the pop up menu that appears and then choose whether you want to update only the page numbers or the entire table. A table of contents usually headed simply contents and abbreviated informally as toc is a list usually found on a page before the start of a written work of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers. Your table of contents will now be updated. Switch to new thesaurus noun 1.
Pliny the elder credits quintus valerius. The toc will include a string of dots called a leader between the heading text and the page number for each heading. To see fields in your document you can tell word to display fields with grey shading. Click references table of contents and then choose an automatic table of contents style from the list.
Now for the easy part. If you use a manual table of contents style word won t use your headings to create a table of contents and won t be able to update it automatically. The table of contents in a document acts as a map for the reader making it easier for them to find information in the document based on title and page number. Once you ve applied heading styles you can insert your table of contents in just a few clicks.
Removing the table of contents is simple. Heading 1 heading 2 and heading 3. Removing the table of contents. Navigate to the references tab on the ribbon then click the table of contents command.
You can create a table of contents using a single page of course but there wouldn t be much point. The grey doesn t print but it reminds you that this is a field not ordinary text. A table of contents is a field not ordinary text. Click ok to apply the changes.
See table 1. Automatic table 2 creates a toc titled table of contents.