Applies ToWord 2013
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This video talks about automatic tables of contents. First, go through you document and add a heading with a heading style wherever you want a table of contents entry. Then, insert an automatic table of contents, and update it automatically whenever you make a change.

Create a table of contents

  1. First, apply heading styles – Heading 1 and Heading 2, for example – to the text that you want to include in the table of contents. Select the text, click HOME, and move the pointer over different headings in the Styles gallery. Notice as you pause over each style, your text will change so you can see how it will look in your document. Click the one that you want.

  2. Click where you want to insert the table of contents – usually near the beginning of a document.

  3. Click REFERENCES > Table of Contents and then choose an Automatic Table from the gallery of styles.

Update a table of contents

  • To update a table of contents that was created automatically from heading styles, click REFERENCES > Update Table. You can choose to Update page numbers only, or Update entire table if you want to update the page numbers and the text.

Format the text

To change the formatting of the text in the table of contents, change the style for each level in the table of contents.

  1. Click REFERENCES > Table of Contents > Custom Table of Contents.

  2. In the Table of Contents dialog box, click Modify. If the Modify button is grayed out, change Formats to From template.

  3. In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.

  4. In the Modify Style dialog box, make the formatting changes that you want, and then click OK.

  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the levels that you want to display in your table of contents.

Word will remember these customizations each time you update the table of contents (REFERENCES > Update Table).

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