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Create A Table Of Contents In Word 2007
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A table of contents (TOC) is always a good tool for making your way through a long document. Adding a TOC to your document is simple if you have included styles (this can be built-in styles such as Heading 1 and Heading 2 or custom styles).
To add a table of contents to your Word document using built-in styles:
- Place the cursor where you want to insert the TOC.
- On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents.
- Click the Table of Contents style that you want to use.
- You can also create a TOC based on custom styles you created. After clicking Table of Contents in step 2, click Insert Table of Contents. Click Options and select the style you applied to your document headings. Configure a TOC level number beside each heading you want included in the TOC.
Now it will be simple for users (including yourself) to navigate through the document. If you want to jump to a specific section of the document, hold down the CTRL key and click the corresponding page number listed in the TOC.
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11 Comments
Brian
June 14th, 2007
at 9:16am
Hi Diana. Nice article! Do you know how to create a TOC for a document that contains linked Word 2007 files? I have a main document with several linked subdocuments, which contain some text with the built-in Header2 styles. I would like the TOC in the main document to list the Header2 text in the linked documents. Any ideas?
Chung Lee
December 15th, 2007
at 11:00pm
This is simple, easy to understand. This helps tremendously. Thx
Dave
April 9th, 2008
at 5:39pm
I love Word 2007. This is a great feature.
The only issue I have with this is that I tend to use the Title style for major sections, then heading 1, heading 2, etc. below that. Is there any way to get Word to pick up the Titles?
Aileen
October 3rd, 2008
at 5:48am
How do I edit my TOC’s Format? I want to remove tab leaders and page numbers from chapter number headings..
EG:
Glossary ……………………. 1
CHAPETR 1
1. Heading 1 ……………… 2
1.1 Heading 2 …………… 3
CHAPETR 2
1. Heading 1 ……………… 4
1.1 Heading 2 …………… 5
Please help! I’m going nuts trying to figure it out
Tonia
October 21st, 2008
at 7:17am
I really like word 2007. It has a lot of nice features to help make documents look outstanding; however I am having a problem that I just can’t figure out. When I go to Print Preview, my TOC page #s all go to one number, such as 3 or 5. I have checked the Options tab under TOC, I have verified all the Bookmarks that are used. I don’t know what else to do. This started happening when I added Cross-references in my document. I put the cross-references into text boxes and changed the shape. Would this have caused an issue?
Thanks
Siva
November 1st, 2008
at 11:04pm
Hi,
I createad a Table of Content in word 2007. I applied heading style to the document content too. When i give Update entire table the TOC is not updating..? Any idea?
Thanks in advance,
C.N.Siva
Rachell
November 14th, 2008
at 3:11am
if i have a table of contents; how do i insert more headins/titles as i have about 93 titles that need to be displayed in the TOC? where the document takes about 200 pages
Thanks
Rachell
andrea
November 18th, 2008
at 12:55pm
I’ve the same problem with Tonia. The page number changed to one number when doing print preview and print to PDF format file. Anybody knows how to fix it?
andy
May 3rd, 2009
at 1:38pm
I had the same problem as Tonia & andrea… I went to Word Options > Display > select “Update fields before printing” …. now it prints fine. Hope that helps.
David Curran
July 23rd, 2009
at 10:31am
Very quick and accurate.
Straight to the point.
Thank you.
Danny
August 23rd, 2009
at 8:09am
Thanks for this. Saved me a lot of time!