You already know that a table of contents makes it easier for your readers to work with long documents of 10 or more pages. They give printed documents a sophisticated look and feel, and add ebook-like navigation to onscreen documents.

But did you know that tables of contents are wicked easy to create and update in Microsoft Word? I created the following table of contents with just three clicks—and so can you. Here’s how!

After you have created a table of contents in Word, you can customize the way it appears. Customizing your table of contents applies your preferences to your existing table. Like what you see, select OK. If you're not happy with the look, just select Cancel and all changes are forgotten. Your table of contents will still be there. WWDC 2011 begins today - Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud unveiling sets the stage for a Unified Apple Platform Apple CEO Steve Jobs to introduce Apple's next generation software Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud during WWDC Keynote Address on Monday, June 6 Amazon launches a Mac Download Store - software and games for your Mac.

In this article I’ll show you how to create a table of contents (ToC) in Word 2013—but you’ll use the same process to create one in Word 2010, Word 2007 and Word 2011 for the Mac.

Inserting a table of contents

In Word, tables of contents rely on your use of styles to format headings. If you already used the Heading 1, Heading 2, and other heading styles to format your document, you’re ready to insert your ToC. Follow these steps to insert a table of contents:

1. Click in your document where you want to create the table of contents. If you’d like it to appear on its own page, insert a page break (Ctrl+Enter) before and after inserting the ToC.
2. Click the References tab. In the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents.
3. Choose the style of Table of Contents you wish to insert. Automatic Table 1 creates a ToC titled Contents. Automatic Table 2 creates a ToC titled Table of Contents.

Word will create a ToC from the document text you styled with one of the first three heading styles: Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. The ToC will include a string of dots called a leader between the heading text and the page number for each heading.

Hold Ctrl and click on one of the page numbers to navigate to that location in the document. When people reading your document on-screen hover over a page number, they’ll be reminded that they can use the ToC for navigation.

No styles?

If the headings in your document aren’t formatted with styles, before inserting your table of contents, select each of the top-level headings for your ToC and apply the Heading 1 style from the Styles group on the Home tab of the ribbon.

Select all the second-level headings and apply the Heading 2 style, and so on. With your heading styles all applied, click on the References tab and insert your table of contents.

Inserting a custom ToC

The default Word ToC includes the first three heading levels; you won’t want this much detail in ToCs for longer documents. Even in a shorter document, you might choose to only include Heading 1 and Heading 2 text in your ToC. When inserting the ToC, choose Insert Table of Contents to specify formatting—including how tab leaders and page numbers are formatted, and which heading levels to include.

If you formatted your headings with distinct styles for each level, but used styles other than the built-in heading styles, click the Options button in the Table of Contents dialog box to map the styles you used to the ToC framework.

Just as the ToC is created based on styles, it’s also built to beformatted with styles. If you want to change the font, font size, or other formatting attributes of the ToC, click the Modify button in the Table of Contents dialog box and specify your formatting for each ToC heading level. Any formatting you apply directly to the TOC is discarded whenever the TOC is updated.

Updating your ToC

After you’ve edited your document, page numbers and headings may change, which will make your ToC incorrect! But don’t worry. To update your Table of Contents, right-click in the table and choose Update Field, or choose Update Table from the Table of Contents group on the References tab. Select entire table or page numbers only and click OK to regenerate the table of contents from your headings.

It’s a good practice to update the table of contents before printing or sharing a document in case it has been modified since the last time the ToC was updated.

Note: You don’t need to wait until your document is finished to insert a table of contents. If you’re creating a long document, create a table of contents from an outline so that you can navigate using the ToC while you’re working on the document.

Not all documents require a table of contents; they’re inappropriate for letters and memos, obviously, and overkill for smaller documents.

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