How To Create Table Of Contents In Word

Hover your cursor over the area where you would like to add the table of contents on your document.

Find the “references” option, then go to “table of contents”. Pick an automatic style of table of contents from the list of options.

This will add an automatic table of contents to your document. If you subsequently make any changes to your document that will have an effect on the table of contents, all you need to do is update the table.

To update your table of content, right-click on the table, and select the “update field” option.

You may also choose to update the table of contents manually, if you wish to do so.

If you find that you have missing entries in your table of contents, you may want to fix it. This might happen because of headings that are not properly formatted as headings, so they aren’t picked up.

To fix this issue, go to each heading that you would like in your table of content, highlight them, and select “home”, then “styles”. Selected “heading one”.

This should update the table of contents and the heading will now appear in the table for you to easily access.

Click where you would like to put your table of contents on the document you are working on. This is typically near the beginning of the document.

Find the “references” option, then go to “table of contents”. Pick an automatic style of table of contents from the list of options. There should be a number to choose from.

This will add an automatic table of contents to your document. If you subsequently make any changes to your document that will affect the table of contents, all you need to do is update the table.

To update your table of content, right-click on the table, and select the “update field” option.

You may also choose to update the table of contents manually, if you wish to do so.

If you find that you have missing entries in your table of contents, you may want to fix it. This might happen because of headings that are not properly formatted as headings, so they aren’t picked up.

To fix this issue, go to each heading that you would like in your table of content, highlight them, and select “home”, then “styles”. Selected “heading one”.

This should update the table of contents and the heading will now appear in the table for you to easily access.

Click wherever you want your table of contents to go

Go to the toolbar ribbon, then select “references”

Towards the end on the left-hand side, there will be an option to select “insert table of contents”. Alternatively, you may need to go to “table of contents” then select “insert table of contents”

After selecting your option, the table will show up with all the headings in your document

You can update your table at any point by right-clicking and selecting “update table of contents”.