#Table of contexts update
#Table of contexts manual

If you want to customize your table, click Table of Contents and Custom Table of Contents. So that’s all you have to know to insert an automatic table of contents.

#Table of contexts update

When it comes time to let other people see your document, all you have to do is click Update Table.Īnd choose whether to update just the page numbers or the entire table. Let’s say you continue working on the document, and add sections, move text around, remove pages or change headings. That’s pretty convenient, but it gets better. Then, choose which automatic table style you want, and click.Īnd Word instantly creates a table of contents, based on your styled headings. Go to the REFERENCES tab and click Table of Contents. When you’re finished, click where you want to add the table of contents. In this last section, let’s apply the Heading 2 style to these sub-sections. We can always change it later.Ĭontinue adding styled headings throughout your document. You decide how you want to use the three heading levels.įor example, you could use Heading 1 for major parts or sections, Heading 2 for chapters and Heading 3 for sub-chapters.įor this document, let’s assign Heading 1 to this heading. Then, on the HOME tab, open the Styles gallery.īy default, any text that you apply these styles to will show up as an entry in the table of contents. Let’s say we want the table of contents to point to this summary.įirst type a heading.

Then, insert an automatic table of contents, and update it automatically whenever you make a change. Here is how that works.įirst, go through the document and add a heading with a heading style wherever you want a table of contents entry.

#Table of contexts manual

In this video, we are going to skip the manual method and focus on a much better way – Automatic Tables of Contents. You can add a table of contents to a document by typing all the chapters and page numbers manually.īut not only is this a lot of work, you have to remember to update the table every time you make a change. Word will remember these customizations each time you update the table of contents ( REFERENCES > Update Table). Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the levels that you want to display in your table of contents.

In the Modify Style dialog box, make the formatting changes that you want, and then click OK. In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify. If the Modify button is grayed out, change Formats to From template. In the Table of Contents dialog box, click Modify. To change the formatting of the text in the table of contents, change the style for each level in the table of contents.Ĭlick REFERENCES > Table of Contents > Custom Table of Contents. You can choose to Update page numbers only, or Update entire table if you want to update the page numbers and the text. To update a table of contents that was created automatically from heading styles, click REFERENCES > Update Table. Click the one that you want.Ĭlick where you want to insert the table of contents – usually near the beginning of a document.Ĭlick REFERENCES > Table of Contents and then choose an Automatic Table from the gallery of styles. Notice as you pause over each style, your text will change so you can see how it will look in your document. Select the text, click HOME, and move the pointer over different headings in the Styles gallery. Then, insert an automatic table of contents, and update it automatically whenever you make a change.įirst, apply heading styles – Heading 1 and Heading 2, for example – to the text that you want to include in the table of contents. First, go through you document and add a heading with a heading style wherever you want a table of contents entry. This video talks about automatic tables of contents.