TABLE OF CONTENTS (How to create)

Create Table Of Contents

A Table of Contents will be inserted at the beginning of the book and tells the readers what topics are included in the book and what page they is that information.

 

Each line of information that you want to have included in the Table of Contents must have the Heading 1 or the Heading 2 or the Heading 3 (up to Heading 9) style applied to that text.

1.      The first thing we need to do is to show the STYLES task pane on the right side of the Word document

2.      To do this:

3.      HOME tab

4.      STYLES tab

5.      Click the DIALOG BOX LAUNCHER

6.      In the bottom right corner of the STYLES task pane click the

7.      Options button

8.      Click the down arrow next to Select styles to show:

9.      Choose All styles

10.  Click ok

11.  Now you must go through the document “mark” each line of text you want to have in your table of contents:

12.  Select the text (or word) you want included in the Table of Contents

13.  On the rights of the screen in the STYLES task pane

14.  Click HEADING 1 (view image below)

15.  Go through the entire document and repeat these steps for each line of text you want to include in the Table of Contents (Heading 2 through Heading 9 styles indent a bit when creating the Table of Contents.