On Microsoft word how can i automatically insert a contents page ?

Question

help please doing my course work !!

Answer 1

A Table of Contents is simple. These instructions are for Word 2002 (XP) but should be very close in adjacent versions.



1. Go to the point where you want the TOC to be, usually right before the first page.

2. Click on the Insert->Reference->Index and Tables menu item.

3. Select the Table of Contents tab.

4. Under Print Preview there are a few options you may wish to select or deselect, including one for tab leaders.

5. Click OK.

6. This will insert a table of contents field in your document, but since you don't have any entries, you'll see this message:



Error! No table of contents entries found.



Not to worry. To make entries, you'll have to use Heading styles. Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 are by default collected for the Table of contents, but you can play around and get others also. There's even a way of putting in entries that aren't flagged by style.



The Table of Contents also doesn't continually update itself. You have to tell it to whenever you want it to:



1. Right click in the table and select Update Field.

2. An Update Table of Contents dialog box will appear.

3. Click the Update Entire Field button.

4. Click OK.



You'll also probably want to put the Table in a separate section (use the Insert->Break menu item and select Section/Next page from the list).



And you may want to number the pages following the TOC starting at 1.



1. Click anywhere In the first section after the TOC.

2. Click the Insert->Page Numbers menu item.

3. In the Page Numbers dialog box, click the Format button.

4. Click Start At.

5. Click OK.

6. DO NOT CLICK OK ON THE PAGE NUMBERS DIALOG BOX OR YOU'LL INSERT A DEFAULT PAGE NUMBER FIELD. Click CANCEL instead.



Hope that helps.

Answer 2

If I am not wrong you want to insert Table Content Page (or Index Table) in word. For you have to follow this procedure:



1. Go to Format Option.

2. Then select Bullets & Numbering option.

3. Now click on outline Tab or List Styles.

4. Select view which u want to use.

5. After that your choose format will comes which u select.



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Answer 3

The most simple way is by ensuring throughout the document that you are choosing the heading styles — for example, Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 from the "home - style" part of the ribbon rather than just manually clicking bold and say 16pt text.



Once you have finished the document just click the references tab and the "table of contents" button and low and behold your contents table is created!



A little effort up front saves hours behind!