How Do You Create A Microsoft Word Table Of Contents?
A long time ago when I just started using Microsoft Word, I used to wait until I had written all sections of a report/document before creating a Table of Contents (TOC). I would literally write down the page numbers of each section flipping through them before I manually typed each entry into the TOC. If any changes were later made to the various sections, I’d have to manually change the entries in the TOC (e.g., page number changes). Well, those days are long gone thanks to Word’s automatic TOC generator. You can easily set up a TOC in Word that automatically links each section. When creating the body of a report or document, use the heading styles (either predefined or one you’ve already defined) for your section headings. These include top level (i.e., level 1) to the lower subsections as shown in Figure 1. Create these starting on the second or preferably third page of your document since you’ll want the first few pages to be the Title and TOC pages. Go to the page that you to inse
