The Word 2010 gallery makes adding a basic table of contents quick: Click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click the gallery table of contents you want.
But what if you want more? What if your table of contents needs to provide different information–more levels, or fewer levels? What if you want a table of contents at the beginning of each chapter? What if you want to change the font?
Here are some of the ways you can customize your table of contents.
Dec 02, 2016 How to Create a Table of Contents in Word 2016 for Mac. Step 1: Add Styles to Your Document. Microsoft Word’s automatic table of contents generator relies on styles, which are special formats you. Step 2: Create a Table of Contents. Step 3: Automatically Update Your Table of Contents. Mar 27, 2017 In Windows, in the References tab of the ribbon, click again on the Table of Contents button and choose Custom Table of Contents, near the bottom. In the Table of Contents dialog box, click Modify. On the Mac, click Insert Index and Tables. Microsoft Word can create a table of contents that can be instantly updated to reflect additions and changes in your document. This table of contents acts as both a guide and navigation tool that enables readers to quickly find the information they need. The easiest way to build and maintain a table of contents is by using Styles. May 11, 2017 This video demonstrates how to insert, format, and update a table of contents in Word 2016 for Mac AFTER you have inserted headings into your document. To learn how to insert headings, please. Format the text in your table of contents. Go to References Table of Contents Custom Table of Contents. Select Modify. If Modify is grayed out, change Formats to From template. In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify. In the Modify Style pane, make.
Quick reminder: Before you start, be sure you’ve applied styles to your headings. If you want to use a custom style, skip ahead to #4. You can always scroll back to catch the first three tips.
1. Change the number of levels in the table of contents
A table of contents will be inserted into the top of your document. If you wish for the table of contents to be on a separate page, place your cursor just below the table of contents and click on the Insert tab. Select Page Break from the Break menu.
- Click in your table of contents. Now click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. (You’re going to replace the existing table of contents with the one you want.)
- In the Show levels box, type the number of levels you want to display in the table of contents.
- After you click OK, Word asks you whether you want to replace the table of contents. Click Yes.
The field code short cut
Click in your table of contents, and then press Alt+F9. You’ll see a field code that looks something like this:
{ TOC o “1-3” h z u }
The o switch determines how many levels are in the table of contents. Change the numbers in the quotation marks. For example, if you want to show only two levels, change “1-3” to “1-2”.
2. Add a table of contents for each chapter or section
To add separate tables of contents, you add a Word bookmark to the chapter or section (or a separate bookmark to each chapter or section). Then you add that bookmark switch to the table of contents code.
Step through the details in Add a table of contents for each section.
3. List section headings in a table of contents without showing a page number
- Apply the Heading 1 style to your section headings, and use a different style for the other headings.
- Click the table of contents, and then press Alt+F9.
- In the field code, add n “1-1”, which means no number for level-1 headings.The field code now looks something like this:{ TOC o “1-3” n “1-1” h z u }
Step through the details in Add sections to a table of contents.
4. Use custom styles for your table of contents
If you want to use a level-1 heading but you don’t want it to look like the default heading style, you can create your own heading style and use it for your table of contents.
- First, format the heading the way you want it, and then select it.
- Click the Home tab. In the Styles gallery, click the More button, and then click Save Selection as a New Quick Style.
- Give your new style a name, and then apply it to all the headings you want.
- Now, when you’re ready to insert a table of contents, click References, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents.
- Click Options, and then scroll to find the name of your new style. Type the heading level you want it to have in the box, and then click OK.(In this picture, TOCBody is the name of my new style.)
Click OK again to insert the table of contents.
Microsoft Word For Mac Table Of Contents
5. Change the font in a table of contents
- Click the table of contents (if you’ve already inserted one).
- Click References, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. (Again, you’re going to replace the existing table of contents with the one you want.)
- Click Modify, click one of the heading levels, and then click Modify.
- Click Format, click Font, and then make the font changes you want.
- Click OK, and then click Modify again to make the changes for the next level. (You change each level separately.)
- When you’re done changing the font for each level, click OK, and then click OK again to insert the table of contents.
— Joannie Stangeland
In Office 2011 for Mac, Word features a fast, new way to make a Table of Contents (TOC). If you’ve been using Heading styles throughout your document, the process is entirely automatic. Choose to make a Table of Contents automatically; otherwise, select the Manual Formatting option.
Follow these steps to make a TOC:
- Click in the document where you want the TOC to appear.
- In the Document Elements tab of the Ribbon, look in the Table of Contents group and click the tab at the bottom-center of the gallery.
- Choose a TOC style from the Automatic Table of Contents group in the gallery.* Choose Heading Styles if your document contains Heading styles.* Choose Manual if your document does not contain Heading styles.If you choose an Automatic option, based on the heading styles you used in the document, Word creates a quick TOC for you! If you choose the Manual option, Word guesses at your document’s structure and presents you with a generic TOC based on your format choice from the gallery that you can customize manually.
How fast and easy is that? As long as your document is well-structured based on Heading styles, Word’s TOC feature saves you a ton of work. But what if you want more TOC style choices? No problem! Select the entire TOC that you put into your document. In Word, choose Insert→Index and Tables, and then select the Table of Contents tab in the Index and Tables dialog that appears.
Here you can choose from additional formatting options:
- Formats: Shows built-in and your own custom TOC format styles.
- Show Levels: Sets how many heading levels will be used in the TOC.
- Show Page Numbers: This check box shows or hides page numbers.
- Right Align Page Numbers: This check box aligns page numbers left or right.
- Tab Leader: This pop-up menu offers more choices for the type of leader line that will be inserted between headings and page numbers.
- Options button: This button opens the Table of Contents Options dialog.With the Table of Contents dialog, you can manually map styles to TOC levels by typing in TOC level values in the fields to the right of the Available Styles list. You can determine which styles to make available:
- Styles: Selecting this box allows you to choose from TOC styles from Normal.dotm and other open templates.
- Table Entry Fields: Select this box to allow mapping of TOC Word field codes in your document to TOC levels in a TOC.
- Modify:Available if you choose From Template in the Styles list.