Ms-Word: How to Make a Table of Contents

Now that we have made some real headings using Styles, I want to show you how to make an automatic table of contents. A good rule of thumb is that a report of twelve pages or more should have a table of contents.

In Word this is easily done if you have used Heading Styles. The table of contents will adapt automatically if you make any changes to the document.

We will use the document that we have worked with in recent exercises. It is only a half page, so I have to admit that it seems a bit silly to make a table of contents, but in this way you do not have to write 12 pages of text before we can begin the exercise.

1. Insert a blank line at the top of the document. Do this by placing the cursor before the word "This" in the top header and press the ENTER key. 
2. Click the References Tab in the Ribbon, and click the Table of Contents Tab (see Figure 23). 3. Click on the top example in the menu that appears.