How do you create a table of contents on Ms Word (see details)?

Question

So that when you click on one of the things in the table of contents, it goes to the page that is on?

My dad's shown me how to do it, but I forgot, and I need it written down so I can remember.

Can you please be as detailed as possible.

Answer 1

A Table of Contents is simple. These instructions are for Word 2002 (XP) but should be very close to 2003.

1.Go to the point where you want the TOC to be, usually right before the first page.
2.Click on the Insert->Field menu item.
3.Scroll down to TOC and select it.
4.Click OK.
5.This will insert a table of contents field in your document, but since you don't have any entries, you'll see this message:

Error! No table of contents entries found.

Not to worry. To make entries, you'll have to use Heading styles. Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 are by default collected for the Table of contents, but you can play around and get others also. There's even a way of putting in entries that aren't flagged by style.

The Table of Contents also doesn't continually update itself. You have to tell it to whenever you want it to:

1.Right click in the table and select Update Field.
2.An Update Table of Contents dialog box will appear.
3.Click the Update Entire Field button.
4.Click OK.

You'll also probably want to put the Table in a separate section (use the Insert->Break menu item and select Section/Next page from the list).

And you may want to number the pages following the TOC starting at 1.

1.Click anywhere In the first section after the TOC.
2.Click the Insert->Page Numbers menu item.
3.In the Page Numbers dialog box, click the Format button.
4.Click Start At.
5.Click OK.
6.DO NOT CLICK OK ON THE PAGE NUMBERS DIALOG BOX OR YOU'LL INSERT A DEFAULT PAGE NUMBER FIELD. Click CANCEL instead.

That should be enough to get you started.

Answer 2

1. Click on Insert found on the tool bar.
2. Scroll down to Reference
3. Select Index and Tables
4. Select Table of Contents on top tab line
5. Read carefully your options. This is where it gets tricky and may generate what you may not want. Experiment on a manuscript. Save your file because you may want to go back to it and copy back into the file you're working with. As you will see, explaining further is difficult.

I wish you success with it.