Create A Table Of Contents In Word 2007

Posted by on Apr 24, 2007 | 13 Comments

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:

  1. Place the cursor where you want to insert the TOC.
  2. On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents.
  3. Click the Table of Contents style that you want to use.
  4. 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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  • Brian

    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?

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/windows/2007/04/24/create-a-table-of-contents-in-word-2007/#commentary Chung Lee

    This is simple, easy to understand. This helps tremendously. Thx

  • Dave

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Very quick and accurate.
    Straight to the point.
    Thank you.

  • Danny

    Thanks for this. Saved me a lot of time!

  • http://www.1webdiva.com/blog/ Leanne Boyd

    Good discussion… but has anyone figured out why Word changes all the page numbers to ONE number, such as 4, 5, 11, etc.? This number changes depending on which page you are currently on when you go to Print Preview. The Doc is fine, the TOC is fine… until you go into Print Preview. That’s when the change is made. The very last thing I do before creating a PDF is to update the TOC field, and save the Doc. I’ve had to redo many ebooks because of this… and I cannot find any information; not in Help and not on the Net. This forum was the first I’ve found… having to do, no doubt, with my exact seek keywords.

    I consider this a bug! Yet even the MS help files don’t seem to address the issue, let alone…. is there a FIX? Not a temporary thing such as the last action being doing a TOC uupdate. WHY is Word doing this, to begin with?

    Thanks
    Leanne Boyd

  • Satya

    Still the system page numbers 4, 5,11, etc. does not change to user defined page numbers like 1-1, 1-2, 1-3; or 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, etc. when updated the TOC. is there any way to give user defined page numbers in TOC ?