Create and update an automatic table of contents in Word 2010
Create an automatic table of contents in Word 2010 - Plus how to update it after you made any changes
In this tutorial we will go over how to create and insert an automatic table of contents in Word 2010.
Word 2010 makes it very easy to create an automatic table of contents.
As long as you do some work first, that is tell word what your chapter titles, headings and subheadings are.
Go to your document's chapter titles, select your chapter title and from the Home tab click on Heading 1.
Do the same for your chapter's section and subsection headings. You can mark a chapter section's title as a level 2 subheading by selecting the subheading and clicking on Heading 2. Do the same for the subsection's heading by selecting it and clicking on Heading 3.
You need to repeat the process for all your document's tiles.
Then go to the References tab and from the Table of Contents, click on Table on Contents and choose from one of 2 available automatic table of contents' formats.
You can also change your table of contents' title by simply going to your automatic table of contents in your word document and changing it to a title of your choice.
Update and automatic table of contents in Word 2010
If you make any changes to your word document's chapters, titles, headings or subheadings, simply go to your automatic table of contents and click on "update table". You can update only the page numbers of your document or update the entire table.
Select "update entire table" and your automatic table of contents will change to reflect the changes that you made to your document's, titles, headings and subheadings.
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