How To Create Table of Content

DEFINITION:

Table of content can be defined as an organized listing of document chapters, headings, section etc labelled by the page number they are found.

In this tutorial I am going to be showing you how to create table of content for your large documents, such as project works, books, articles and lots more. We also know how time consuming it is to manually create table of content by going to look at each chapter, headings and other titles to create a table of content, but if you follow the steps below you can create a table of content with ease.

• CREATING TABLE OF CONTENT
• Step 1 - Open the document that you want to create table of content for.



TIP:

Using this method table of content can be anywhere inside your document, but normally it should always be at the beginning of your document.

• Step 2 - Click on the position or place in your document that you want to create the table of content.
  Then click on the References tab, go to the Table of Contents group and click on the Table of Contents command or option. (This will bring out the different options for table of contents include other options)

• Step 3 - Click on of the option you like and it will be inserted. In my own case, I click on the first option.

• Step 4 - Your table of content will be successfully created.



NOTE:

Ms-word has two major categories in table of content. Automatic - When you click on this option, Ms-word scans through your entire document and creates a perfect table of content for that document.
Manual - When you click on this option, the table of content template is inserted for you to edit it and fill in you document details.

• CREATING CUSTOM TABLE OF CONTENT

To create a custom table of content you can follow steps below

• Step 1 - Click on the References tab, go to the Table of Contents group and click on the Table of Contents command or option. Move down the dropdown list and click on the Custom Table of Contents option. (A dialog box will be displayed)

• Step 2 - Inside the table of content dialog box, you can adjust or change the following: Enable/Disable Show page number and Right align page numbers. Change Tab leader, Enable/Disable Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers
  You can also adjust the formats, level and click on the Options button to display anther options dialog box that you can also edit or adjust as you wish.

• Step 3 - After you have finish setting all you want to set above. Click on the Okay and your table of content will be successfully created.

• UPDATING TABLE OF CONTENT

After creating table of content, you might likely come back to the document to add more chapters, heading and section which will have to be updated in the table of contents. You can update your table of contents by following the step below.

• Step 1 - Click on the References tab, go to the Table of Contents group and click on the Update Table command or option. A dialog box will be displayed for you to choose to update page numbers only or the entire table. It is advisable to always update the entire table.

• Step 2 - Your table of content will be updated successfully.

• DELETE TABLE OF CONTENT
• Step - Click on the References tab, go to the Table of Contents group and click on the Table of Contents command or option. Move down the dropdown list and click on the Remove Table of Contents option. Your table of contents will be deleted.