Table of Contents in Word
The “Table of
Contents” feature is also available in previous versions of Word.
This
feature makes use of the “Headings” styles as a hierarchy of the content
outline,
This
is very similar to “Numbered and Bulleted Lists” except it is automatic.
Word
searches your document for the “Heading1” and “Heading2” therough “Heading9”
styles,
and
assigns them into the hierarchy of the Table of Contents (“TOC”)
according
to their number and order they were encountered.
The
TOC also stores the page numbers where each heading / topic was found.
The
TOC can be updated in two ways :
Update just the page numbers
:
This is useful when you simply added content (other than new
TOC topics)
or inserted page or column breaks (covered elsewhere.)
Update the entire TOC:
Use this feature when you’ve added new topics,
or re-arranged the TOC topics into a different order.
In
Word 2007, the TOC can be found on the “Reference” tab of the Office “ribbon”:
An example,
each in the style shown (required to make a TOC):
Heading1
Heading2
Heading3
Clicking
the drop-down arrow displays a list of different types of tables
that are all bascially the same with different features :
Now,
a TOC is created using these “topics” clicking 
(selecting “Automatic”) :
Notice that each hading is indented from the heading above it.
Now, we’ll modify the topics in your document,
and update the TOC to reflect those changes.
Let’s add another set of topics, using the
“Heading” styles
that are required to build a TOC:
Note : the “topics” that were added (above) are still part of the “contents” :
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic
3
Place
the “Insertion point” in the TOC and you will notice an “Update Table” tab
appears:
Once
you have built a TOC, it can be updated in two ways :
Click “
”
to get this menu box:
The
TOC is updated as shown here,
and includes the new headings that were added :
