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INSERT A
A TABLE O
OF CONTEENTS IN W
WORD
A table of contentss (TOC) provides a quick reference point for your documment, givingg the
reader a brief overviiew of wherre to find wh hat content.. When you insert a tab ble of conten nts in
Word 20010, Word searches
s thrrough your document
d lo
ooking for items markeed for use in
n the
TOC. Somme elementts, such as headings,
h arre marked by
b default but
b you can also mark other
o
elementss manually yyourself.
We’ll loo
ok at insertin
ng a table off contents firrst, and then
n look at how
w we can mark items fo
or use
in the TO
OC later.
INSERTIING A TAB
BLE OF CON
NTENTS
When yo our docume ent is ready for a tablee of contennts be careful where yo
ou position your
cursor. TThe TOC willl be inserted d where thee cursor is, n not at the sttart of the ddocument. M Make
sure you
u go to the start
s of your documentt before you u proceed. To
T make som me room fo
or the
TOC, inse ert a page b break by cliccking Insert > Pages > P Page Break. The insertio on point remmains
where it was, with th he new blank page preceding it so ggo back to th he top of youur document and
click Refeerences > Table of Contents > Table of Conten nts. Thumbn nail images representing the
differentt TOC styless are displayyed in the gallery
g and they adopt the curren
nt theme in your
documen nt. Below, th he theme in use by the document w was Equity and you can see that thee TOC
uses thosse colours.
HARVINDER SINGH
You’ll alsso notice thaat there are two optionss in the men nu for Autom matic Table 1 and Autommatic
Table 2. These two o options inseert a table off contents that is autom matically gen nerated from
m the
headingss in the docu ument. This is a quick an nd easy task.. If you selecct Manual Taable, howevver, a
structureed TOC template is inseerted but yo
ou have to type
t in the TOC’s
T conteents manually, as
shown beelow.
USING TTHE INSER
RT TABLE O
OF CONTEN
NTS OPTIO
ON
The thummbnails give you a quick way of inserting a tablee of contentss that will bee styled the ssame
way yourr documentss is, but you are given m
more control with the Inssert Table off Contents op ption
at the bo
ottom of the menu. Wheen you click tthis option, the followin
ng window opens
HARVINDER SINGH
You can change such attributess for your TO
OC as the fo
ormat and how
h many heading
h leveels to
show. If yyou want to show only aa brief TOC, you can cho oose to show
w only level 1
1 headings.
UPDATIING THE TA
ABLE OF C ONTENTS
Quite oftten we will innsert a tablee of contentss and find th
hat we need to change ssome of the
documen nt’s content.. The TOC may become o out of date aand meaninggless if you aadd or remo ove
headingss and change e the page numbers used. To updatee the TOC so o that it refleects what really
is in the d
document, sselect the TO OC by clicking in it and yoou should seee a tab apppear at the toop
Click on the Update Table optio on and then select whetther you waant to updatte page num mbers
only, or to update the entire taable. You caan also click on the buttton to its leeft to changee the
attributees of the tab
ble, and this gives us thee same optioons we saw when we originally inseerted
the TOC
ADDING
G ENTRIES TO A TAB LE OF CO NTENTS
The disad
dvantage of f adding entrries to a TOC
C in this wayy is that thee text (and in
ndeed the w
whole
paragrap
ph) gets style
ed as a heading, which m may not be w
what you waant.
TABLE O
OF CONTEN
NTS FIELD S
HARVINDER SINGH
Another way of addding entries to a table of contentss is to use a
a TC field. Insert
I some
e text
immediately before the contentt you want to add and select it. Click Insert > Te ext > Quick Parts
Field > TTC, and type some text iinto the Texxt entry field d. This text will appear in the TOC. Click
OK.
Note thaat the text yo
ou marked iss not visible anymore. N Next, insert aa TOC, but byy using the Insert
Tabble of Contents at thee bottom off the Table of Contentts menu. We’ll
W need to
t do
sommething spe ecial with th
his TOC to get
g the field
d to displayy, so click Options,
O unccheck
Styyles, check Table entry fiields and clicck OK twice.
Unfortun
nately, doingg this ignoress the headin
ngs that appeear in the do
ocument.