In this module I'm going to cover table of contents. I'll show you how to add a table of contents and update the table. The easiest way to create a table of contents is choose the heading style. When working with styles, I like to have my style showing so that I can quickly verify I'm using the styles in a consistent manner. I also like to work with my paragraph markers showing so I can see where I am at and what style my paragraph markers have. This becomes important when creating your table of contents.

So let's make sure the paragraph markers are turned on and I'm showing my styles in my test document. So I'm going to go over to my test document. I'm going to turn on my paragraph markers. And I'm going to turn on my style sidebar. Now I know when I click on a heading, exactly what heading it is, I'm going to add a few more heading styles so I can complete my table of contents. So I'm going to come down this heading to the next Heading Two out here.

Now I'm ready to add my table of contents. So I'm going to scroll up to where my table of contents goes. I'm going to click on the references tab, because inserting the table contents is done into the references, its references within your document. I'll come over to the table of contents group and click table of contents. From here, I can select one of the automatic tables, I can come down and do more tables from office comm, I can do a custom table or I could remove my table of contents, I'm going to choose automatic table to once I do that, it adds my table of contents. Now you'll notice when it when I added it, it put a chart out here.

So I've got something going on in my document. So I'm going to go to my document where the chart is. So I'm going to just do Ctrl Click so it takes me directly to that area. And you'll notice here that my chart As heading two style on it. Now, if I go back and turn off my paragraph markers, there's no way I would know that. Because when you're looking at it, you can't tell that that has a style attached to it.

So what I'm going to do, turn my paragraph markers back on, I'm going to highlight this area. And I'll change the style to normal. Once I've changed the style to normal, I can scroll back up to my table, click within the table and do a right click and choose Update table. Now when you choose Update table is going to give you two options. The first option is to update only the page numbers. And this is done if you've gone in and you've added additional text to a section and so it's moved things on to another page.

That's not the case here. I've actually changed the headings within my document. So I want to update the entire table. So I'm going to click Update entire table and click OK. Once I do that, You'll notice that I remove the chart from my table of contents, so everything is good now. So that's the quickest and easiest way to create a table of contents. Make sure that you use styles consistently within your document and build your table of contents on that.

Now if you want to get a little bit more detailed with your table of contents, you can create a manual table of contents. We're going to do that next we're going to come up to our table, go to references, table of contents, and remove table of contents. This time when we come into the table contents group and go to the table of contents, we're going to choose Custom table of contents. From here we've got multiple options available to us. We can tell it to show the page numbers to write a line or numbers, we can change the tab leader. We want to use dashes instead of dots.

We can come down and choose a format from a template, different types. I'm going to leave it to from template but in here I just want to do one level. I'm gonna change it's only heading one shows on my table of contents. Now if I had to use different styles for my headings, instead of heading one, two, or three, if I had created my own styles, or you've gotten this document on someone and it had paragraph style, one paragraph style two different names for it, you could come to options, you can choose which styles to add to your table of contents over on the left here would have all the styles in your documents, so you would just choose the ones you wanted to add to the table. I can get even more detailed if I want to modify the style on the table of contents itself.

By clicking the Modify button, I can come out and tell it for TLC level one, I want it to be 14 point. And that could do the same for other levels on it. For this table I'm creating now only have one level. So I'm just going to modify one style. I'm going to say OK, click OK. So now it's created my table of contents listing heading one only.

So in this module we've created Table of Contents and updated it. Now let's take a short quiz on the table of contents features and I'll see you in the next module.