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When you’re creating or editing a long document, you’llprobably have sầu lớn create a table of contents. That might sound like a chore, butfortunately, you can vì chưng it in just a few clicks. Then, if you change the document, Word can update the table of content instantly.
Best of all, Word includes hyperlink khổng lồ the various sections in your table of contents, so it isn"t just a visual aid forprinted documents, but it"s also perfect to lớn make easy-to-browse online documents and PDFs with.
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Creating the table of contents in Word itself is simple, but the tricky part is getting it to work the way you want. In this tutorial, I"ll show you everything you need to make a simple, auto-generated table of contents, và then get it to look the way you want in every version of Microsoft Word.
How lớn Make a Table of Contents in Microsoft Word (Screencast)
You can follow along using your own document, or if you prefer, tải về the zip file included for this tutorial. It contains a document called The Age of Einstein.docx, which is a public domain name physics textbook (credit khổng lồ the author, Professor Frank W.K. Firk).
Watch the đoạn Clip screencast above sầu or follow the written tutorial instructions below for more detail on how to make a table of contents in Word.
Creating Your Table of Contents in Word
There are a few ways of creating a table of contents in Word, but only two that you’llever use
Create them automatically from built-in stylesCreate them from your custom stylesThese methods work mostly the same in Windows và Mac versions of Microsoft Word.
Using MS Word built-in styles is the fastest and most commontechnique, & using custom styles takes only a little more work. Sometimes,you’ll want to lớn use both techniques in the same document. Once you have a table of contents (TOC) imãng cầu document, you can format it with its own styles. You don’t want to lớn format theTOC lượt thích regular text, because the formatting can easily get wiped out.
How the Textbook is Organized
Before doing anything khổng lồ the document, let’s see how it’sorganized. Page 1 is the title, page 2 is blank và will hold the table of contents, page 3is the preface, & after that comes the text. As you scroll down, notice that headingsand subheadings are formatted.
The best way lớn see the structure of the document is withthe Navigation Pane. (In some versions of Word for Mac, it may be called the Document Map Pane.)
In Windows, go to the Viewtab, then cliông xã the check box khổng lồ enable the Navigation Pane.
On the Mac, cliông chồng the Sidebar option to show the drop-down menu. Click the arrow next lớn the option và cliông chồng Navigation. (On older versions of the Mac software, the option is called Document Map Pane.)
On your Mac or PC, go baông xã to lớn the Hometab if you’re not already there. Keep your eye on the Styles box on the ribbon,và cliông xã the items in the pane khổng lồ navigate through the book.
Notice that theitems with whole numbers – like 2.Understanding the Physical Universe – are formatted as Heading 1, & itemswith decimals – like 2.1 Reality và PureThought – are formatted as Heading 2. There are also a few decimal items –lượt thích 4.5 Space Travel – that areformatted as Heading 3.
Tip: whencreating a document, the shortcuts for applying the Heading 1, 2 & 3 stylesare Ctrl-Alt-1, Ctrl-Alt-2, & Ctrl-Alt-3(và Command-Opt-1, Command-Opt -2, và Command-Opt-3 on the Mac).
Generating a Table of Contents Using Built-In Header Styles in Word
Word can now turn those Heading styles into lớn table of contentsentries. Cliông xã at the top of page 2. (Tip: in Windows, press Ctrl-G,type 2, then press Enter. On the Mac, press Command-Opt-G, type 2, then press Return.)
In Windows, go to lớn the Referencestab on the ribbon, cliông chồng the Table ofContents button on the left, then choose one of the two built-in tablesfrom the list. Note that the thumbnails show that Headings 1, 2 & 3 will beincluded.
It’s almost the same on the Mac. Go to the Insert thực đơn, choose Index và Tables, then piông xã one of theformats on the left và cliông xã OK.This dialog box also shows that Headings 1-3 will be included.
As soon as you choose one, the table of contents gets inserted starting tối ưu trên trang 2, and Word automatically inserts a couple of more pages, so it all fits. In Windows, you can Ctrl-cliông chồng one of the items, & it will hyperliên kết khổng lồ the tòa tháp in the document.
This works great, but there’s one problem. Before theIntroduction, there is a Preface thatshould be included in the table of contents. And just before Appendix A1 is the heading forthe Appendix, & that should also beincluded. But they weren’t, because they’re both formatted with a custom stylecalled Large heading, and customstyles don’t get included in the mặc định table of contents. The second method of creating table of contents in Word will fix that.
Creating a Table of Contents From Custom Styles in Word
Word can include any styles in a table of contents. We justhave sầu lớn tell it which ones to lớn choose. And we can update the table, rather than havinglớn delete it và start over.
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In Windows, go bachồng lớn the References tab, cliông xã the Tableof Contents button, then near the bottom of the menu, choose Custom Table of Contents. Click the Options button near the bottom of the dialog box lớn display the Table of Contents Options dialog box.
On the Mac, go lớn baông xã to lớn the Insert thực đơn và choose Index& Tables. In the Table of Contents section, cliông xã the Options button.
On the Mac or PC the Table of Contents Options dialog box shows that the Heading 1 style will have TOC cấp độ 1,the Heading 2 style will have sầu TOC cấp độ 2, & the Heading 3 style will haveTOC màn chơi 3.
Scroll down lớn the bottom of the các mục (on the Mac, you"ll use the down slider). Then, in the box for Large heading, type a 1 to lớn make it cấp độ 1. Table of Content levels cancome from more than one style.
Clichồng OK in theTable of Contents Options dialog, then OK again in the Table of Contents dialog box. When Word displays a message asking if you want to replace thetable, choose Yes. The Preface and Appendix are now both included in the tableof contents.
Manually Updating the Table of Contents in Word
There are other times when you’ll want khổng lồ update the tablemanually. This is handy when you change the text of one of the headings andwant the change reflected in the table of contents.
Scroll down khổng lồ the page with the preface. At the top of the page replacePREFACE with FORWARD. Make sure it still uses the Large heading style.
Go bachồng lớn the top of the table of contents & click in it. cảnh báo that ithas a gray background; that means it’s a field, and fields can usually beupdated.
Cliông chồng the Update Tablebutton either on the TOC itself (that button doesn"t always appear) or on the References tab, và the first entry changes khổng lồ FORWARD. (On the Mac, right-cliông xã the table & choose Update Field from the pop-up menu. Choose the Update entire table option và cliông chồng OK.)
Now that the table of contents displays the correct text, wecan apply nicer formatting though.
How lớn Modify Table of Contents Styles in Word
Each heading level of the table of contents has its ownstyle that’s automatically applied. All we have sầu lớn do is change the formattingof the styles to change the table’s appearance, here"s how:
In Windows, in the References tab of the ribbon, cliông xã again on the Table of Contents button & choose Custom Table of Contents, near thebottom. In the Table of Contents dialog box, cliông xã Modify.On the Mac, cliông xã Insert > Indexand Tables. On the left side, choose From Template, thencliông chồng Modify. Everything else worksthe same way as in Windows.In the Table of Contents dialog box, cliông chồng Modify, và another dialog box appears,showing style names và formatting for the TOC heading levels. Select TOC1.Cliông xã the Modifybutton just below it, and the Style dialog box appears. (On the Mac, it"s called the Properties dialog box.)
Format the style with Arial or Helvetica, 12 points, bold.Then click OK.
The table of contents should now look like this:
Conclusion
When you have sầu a long document, you don’t have sầu to fearcreating a table of contents. Whether you’re using Windows or a Mac, you caninsert one in just a few clicks, then use the same dialog box khổng lồ change theformatting.
As you learned in this table of contents tutorial, rethành viên not to apply formatting directly to lớn the table, because itcan get wiped out if you replace it. If you make any changes to lớn the Word document itself, remember to click the top of the TOC và update it. Leave a bình luận below if you have any trouble making or tweaking your table of contents.
To learn more about working with Microsoft Word, study the following tutorials:
Editorial Note: This post wasoriginally published in năm trước. It has been comprehensively revised to make itcurrent, accurate, & up to lớn date by our staff—with special assistance from Laura Spencer.
