Graduate Business Library Guide: Creating Table of Contents and Other Technology Tips

One of the most common features of professional documents is the table of contents (TOC). Microsoft Word makes the creation of a TOC easier by allowing you the option of creating a TOC without using styles and by allowing you to mark a single word or group of words in a particular body of text and add that information to the TOC. Applies to
Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Word 2010

Introduction to Tables of Contents (2:59)
This video talks about automatic tables of contents. First, go through you document and add a heading with a heading style wherever you want a table of contents entry. Then, insert an automatic table of contents, and update it automatically whenever you make a change.

Word for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac Word for the web Word 2019 Word 2019 for Mac Word 2016 Word 2013 Word 2010 Word 2007 Word 2016 for Mac Less. A table of contents in Word is based on the headings in your document.

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