On the Insert menu, click on Index and Tables 3. Tip: If you want to put the table of contents on a separate page or use different page numbers for the table of contents than the rest of the document, put the table of contents in a separate section by adding section breaks before and after the table of contents.
Put your cursor at the location you want the Table of Contents to be inserted into. If you want the Table of Contents on the first page then add a page to the beginning of your document. Once your document has all the Styles applied, click where you want to insert the table of contents. Apply the Title style, Book Title style, or another style to the title instead of a heading style. Tip: To prevent the document title from appearing in the table of contents, do not use Heading 1 for the title. Click the drop down arrow to see all styles. If you do not see the heading style that you want, on the Home tab, under Styles, point to a style.
#MS WORD 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS HOW TO#
At the end of this tutorial are details on how to Create, Modify or Delete a Style. It has to have a Heading style so that Word can tell it to be added to the Table of Contents. In your document, apply heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on) to the text that you want to appear in the table of contents. So first you will need to add for newly created document or change for an existing document the style for each place you want the Title to appear in a chapter in your Table of Contents. In Word, we will insert an automatic table of contents, which relies on heading styles to automatically populate and update the table of contents.
A Table of Contents can also be a quick way for users to maneuver around in the document when saved as a PDF as the user can click on the chapter and get to it quickly, for it becomes a link. 1 Microsoft Word 2011: Create a Table of Contents Creating a Table of Contents for a document can be updated quickly any time you need to add or remove details for it will update page numbers for you.