Create Table of Contents in MS Office 2007

You create a table of contents by choosing the heading styles — for example, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 — that you want to include in the table of contents. Microsoft Office Word searches for headings that match the style that you chose, formats and indents the entry text according to the heading style, and then inserts the table of contents into the document.

Microsoft Office Word 2007 provides a gallery of automatic table of contents styles. Mark the table of contents entries, and then click the table of contents style that you want from the gallery of options. Office Word 2007 automatically creates the table of contents from the headings that you marked.

 

Mark entries for a table of contents

• Select the heading to which you want to apply a heading style.
• On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the style that you want.

 

Mark individual text entries

• Select the text that you want to include in your table of contents.
• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Add Text.

• Click the level that you want to label your selection, such as Level 1 for a main level display in the table of contents.
• Repeat steps 1 through 3 until you have labeled all of the text that you want to appear in the table of contents.

 

Create a table of contents

• Click where you want to insert the table of contents, usually at the beginning of a document.
• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then click the table of contents style that you want.

 

Format the table of contents

• Select the existing table of contents.
• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents.

• In the Table of Contents dialog box, do any of the following:
  • To change how many heading levels are displayed in the table of contents, enter the number that you want in the box next to Show levels, under General.
  • To change the overall look of your table of contents, click a different format in the Formats list. You can see what your choice looks like in the Print Preview and Web Preview areas.
  • To change the way heading levels are displayed in the table of contents, click Modify. In the Style dialog box, click the level that you want to change, and then click Modify. In the Modify Style dialog box, you can change the font, the size, and the amount of indentation.

 

Update the table of contents

• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Update Table.

• Click Update page numbers only or Update entire table.

 

Delete a table of contents

• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents.

• Click Remove Table of Contents.