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Create a Table of Contents in Word

posted by trikkky on January 27, 2010

The assignments are coming thick and fast at college and no sign of letting up. This tutorial will be a life saver as it takes forever to do manually.

The second semester has started and already you will be given enough assignments to sink the Titanic. The group has halved in size as the students do not realize what a hard struggle it will be trying to work, look after children and manage to do the college work at the same time. At the moment there are 5/6 assignments on the go all at once with not very long to the hand in date.

After you have finished your assignment and then want to do the TOC (table of contents) you will be pleased to see this little time saver, as it is not very hard to do.

What you will see is a mock up assignment just with the headings and sub headings. The main headings will have a Heading 1 and the sub headings will have a heading 2 with a few sub headings as well.

Once you have created you own styles, with which font and font sizes you use for your headings it all becomes very easy, we have to use New Times Roman with a font size of 18pt for page headings.

At college we have to use 2003 version of Word, if you need help just ask. The TOC is in the insert menu and when you highlight the chapter heading ready for turning into a (TOC), in the font style menu(which will be on normal font style) click the drop down arrow and select which heading size you want (this is for 2003). Once you have selected all your headings then do you press the Table of Contents button not before as you haven’t defined any headings. If you decide to add more title or chapters to your document you can still add then as headings as word knows there is a TOC on the page and it will ask you if you want to update the page numbers blah blah..