In Word 2003 you’ll find it under Insert | Reference | Index and Tables | Table of Contents. The basics haven’t changed much for many versions of Word. Once you’ve got some headings formatted in your document you can make a Table of Contents. If you haven’t already, go through your document applying Heading styles to heading and sub-headings. That’s the easy way however you can assign any paragraph style to a level in the TOC. Normally you’ll use the ‘Heading 1’, ‘Heading 2’ etc styles in Word to define the headings that you want to show in the Table of Contents. Word takes the text from paragraphs in nominated styles to make up the TOC.
Preparing your documentīefore you make your Table of Contents (aka TOC) you need to setup your document with headings that will make up the TOC. It’s a good way to see an overview of a long document and ensure that it’s in a logical structure.įinally it can be a way to jump to parts of the document if you don’t like using the Document Map feature in Word. A table of contents can be there for ‘in house’ use while making the document, and later removed from the final version. It’s very easy to do this in Word and it’s not just for people who are making books, for it can be useful in any long document such as a contract. In this issue we’ll look at the basic options for making a Table of Contents in a Word document. The basic options for making a Table of Contents in a Word document.
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