How To Create, Update & Delete Table Of Content In Microsoft Word 2010

Create Table of Contents
The following will help you to create Table of Contents in your Microsoft Word using various levels of headings.
Step 1: Consider a document having different levels of headings.
Step 2: You can insert a table of content anywhere in the document, but the best place is always at the beginning of the document. So bring your insertion point at the beginning of the document and then click the References tab followed by the Table of Content button; this will display a list of Table of Contents options.
Step 3: Select any of the displayed options by simply clicking on it. A table of content will be inserted at the selected location.
Step 4: You can select number of levels of headings in your table of content. If you click on the Insert Table of Content option available in the option menu, then it will show you a dialog box where you can select the number of levels you want to have in your table of content. You can turn ON or turn OFF the Show Page Numbers option. Once done, click the OK button to apply the options.
Now if you press the Ctrl key and then click over the any link available in the table of content, it will take you directly to the associated page.

Update Table of Contents
When you work on a Word document, then number of pages and their content keep varying and accordingly you need to update your Table of Contents. Following are the simple steps to update an existing Table of Contents in your Microsoft Word.
Step 1: Consider you already have a table of content as shown above. Click the References tab followed by the Update Table button; this will display the Update Table of Contents dialog box with two options.
Step 2: If you want to update just the page numbers then select the first option Update page numbers only available in the dialog box but if you want to update page numbers as well, then select the second option Update entire table and you will find your table of content updated with all the latest changes.

Delete Table of Contents
The following steps will help you delete an existing Table of Contents from Microsoft Word. Step 1: Consider you already have a table of content as shown above. Click the References tab and next Table of Contents button which will display a list of Table of Contents options along with Remove Table of Contents option available at the bottom.
Step 2: Click over the Remove Table of Contents option to delete the existing table of contents.

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