Large text documents, as a rule, have a certain structure - they are divided into chapters or sections, and often also into subsections, inside which there can also be sections of different nesting levels. Such documents need a table of contents, which is quite time-consuming and somewhat tedious to create manually. With the word processor Microsoft Office Word, this task can be greatly simplified.
Necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
Start Microsoft Word and load the document that needs a table of contents into it.
Step 2
Before using the Content List Generation feature, there are some preparatory work that needs to be done. You need to select in a certain way in the text of the document headers or any fragments of text that will be used in the table of contents. To do this, select the name of each chapter, section, subsection and assign it the appropriate style - select it from the list placed in the Styles command group on the Home tab of the Word menu. The same list can be opened through the context menu of the selected text - right-click the selection and go to the "Styles" section.
Step 3
In the list of contents, you can place not only the titles of chapters and sections, but also any randomly selected fragments of text. To do this, select the desired section of text and go to the "Links" tab in the word processor menu. In the "Table of Contents" command group, open the "Add Text" drop-down list. Select the nesting level in it to which this item of the future table of contents should be attributed - "Level 1", "Level 2", etc.
Step 4
Select a place in the document to place the list of contents after all the necessary sections and subsections have been marked. Place the insertion cursor there and open the "Table of Contents" drop-down list - this is the very first button on the "Links" tab in the Word menu. The word processor will create a table of contents immediately after you select one of the formats in this list.
Step 5
The appearance of a ready-made list of document contents can be changed after its creation in the usual way, using the tools of the "Home" tab of the Microsoft Word menu. And if you subsequently make any changes to the elements of the structure of the text, to update the table of contents use the dialog called by the button "Update table" from the same group of commands "Table of Contents".
